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All the Names
by Jose Saramago ; Margaret Jull Costa
ISBN: 0156010593
ISBN-13: 9780156010597
Format: Paperback
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Summary
This novel was the winner of the Weidenfeld Translation Prize for Margaret Jull Costa's translation from the Portuguese. Saramago tells the story of a passive, mild man who has little interest in anything beyond his job as a low-level clerk in an office that records births and deaths. When he comes across the birth certificate for a mysterious young woman, however, he becomes strangely obsessed with finding out more about her, and his lonely life may never be the same.
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"ALL THE NAMES may not be a major work on the scale of Saramago's visionary BLINDNESS or THE STONE RAFT..., but it is nonetheless a lovely example of late mastery, one of those happy instances in which an older artist demonstrates his genius not by some elaborate plot architecture or stylistic innovation but instead by an almost nonchalant simplicity and directness." -- Michael Dirda
-- Washington Post Book World
"[It] bogs dozily down from time to time; periodically roused, though, by the lilting surprises of this intensely mischievous and intensely humane writer." -- Richard Eder
-- New York Times
"ALL THE NAMES is more tightly focused but less nuanced and less human than what is probably Saramago's best novel, THE YEAR OF THE DEATH OF RICARDO REIS. However, it is a fine, powerful parable that reads very well in Margaret Jull Costa's translation." -- Robert Irwin
-- New York Times Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Harvest Books
Published date: 2001
Size: 5.25 x 7.75 inches
Weight: 0.55 pounds
Pages: 245
Publisher's Notes
When a drone in the Central Registry discovers a stray unfiled birth certificate, he decides to investigate the identity of the woman--the first step in an obsession that will lead him to her. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of Blindness.
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Harvest Books. PAPERBACK. 0156010593 New - Has remainder mark. Fast shipping from trusted wholesaler with many exclusive publisher contracts. . New. ( more information) Offered by Sort Floor Books (United States)
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Harvest Books. PAPERBACK. 0156010593 New and unused. Excellent copy in gift-giving condition. Coming to you FAST from student sellers. You get your book AND help us pay off tuition! . New. ( more information) Offered by Millions of Peaches (United States)
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Saramago, Jose; Costa, Margaret Jull
Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harvest Books, 2001. AS NEW. [Montreal Books rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]. Reprint. Quality Paperback. Fine (Book Condition). ( more information) Offered by Montreal Books (Canada)
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Saramago, Jose, and Costa, Margaret Jull (Translated by)
Harvest Books, 2001 Trade paperback. Good. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Lightly tanned clean supple pages/a secure binding/a straight spine/light cover shelfwear-a very nice reading copy. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 245 p. Audience: General/trade. A psychological metaphysical thriller. The author won the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature.. ( more information) Offered by BuddyLeeBooks (United States)
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Saramago, Jose; Costa, Margaret Jull
San Diego, California U.S.A.: Harvest Books. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2001. Trade Paper. 0156010593 . Nobel prizewinning novel by Portuguese author in a nice copy. Minor edge curling, retailer's sticker back cover.; 60258; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . ( more information) Offered by Bluebird Books (United States)
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Harvest Books, 2001-10-05. Paperback. Good. ** book slightly out of square. some wear to cover and pages. text clean. ( more information) Offered by A. Raj Din-Dayal Booksellers (United States)
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Saramago, Jose; Costa, Margaret Jull
San Diego: Harcourt, 2001. A clean, tight copy. 245 pp.. Soft Cover. Near Fine. ( more information) Offered by Turn-The-Page Books (United States)
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NY: Harcourt. VG in softcover. 2001. trade PB. Keywords: Fiction, 0-15-601059-3. ( more information) Offered by Books End (United States)
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Saramago, Jose; Costa, Margaret Jull (transl.)
Harcourt, 1999. Pages unmarked. Covers moderately edgeworn. Binding square & firm.. ISBN: 0156010593. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Portuguese Literature Fiction Nobel Prize Winners. ( more information) Offered by Books Do Furnish A Room (United States)
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San Diego: Harcourt, 2001. Trade Paperback. Edges a bit worn, page edges smudged. ( more information) Offered by Fantastic Planet Books (United States)
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Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harvest Books. 2001. Later Printing. S Trade Paperback. Very Good. Almost like new. ( more information) Offered by Arundel Books of Seattle (United States)
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Harcourt, 2001. Softcover. NF.. no. By the author of Blindness. Trade Paperback ( more information) Offered by Old Goat Books (Canada)
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Saramago, Jose; Costa, Margaret
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Saramago, Jose; Costa, Margaret Jull (translator)
New.. Paperback. Brand-new softcover 4th printing 2001 Harvest / Harcourt. Superclean; no marks or creases; pages bright; binding tight; never read. Gift-giving condition. 245pp. Includes Reading Group Guide. Language: English (translated from the Portuguese). 'The deceptive simplicity of Nobel Prize-winner Saramago's prose, and the ironic comments that he intersperses within this story of an obsessional quest, initially have a disarming effect; one expects that this low-key exploration of a quiet man's eccentric descent into a metaphysical labyrinth will be an extremely intelligent but unexciting read. Unexciting: wrong. Within the first few pages, Saramago establishes a tension that sings on the page, rises, produces stunning revelations and culminates when the final paragraph twists expectations once again.'--Publishers Weekly, 2000. ( more information) Offered by Brainiac Books (United States)
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SARAMAGO, JOSE
HARCOURT, 1001. QUALITY PAPERBACK. VG. ( more information) Offered by Elliott Bay Book Company (United States)
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Saramago, Jose, and Costa, Margaret Jull (Translated by)
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Jose Saramago
Harvest Books, 01-Oct-2001. Paperback. NEW. Brand new item. Over 4 million customers served. Order now. Selling online since 1995. Few left in stock - order soon. Code: U20081007010956G ( more information) Offered by A1Books (United States)
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Saramago, Jose (translated from the Portugese By Margaret Jull Costa)
Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harvest Books, 2001. 245pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean, one formerly corner-creased. Illustrated card wrapper has negligible edgewear only. First published in the Portugese as 'Todos os Nomes', 1997. This 2001 first Harvest Edition, Jose Saramago's (Nobel Prize for Literature,1998) seventh novel to be translated into English, is a psychological thriller set in a Central Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths. Senor Jose, middle-aged bachelor and low-grade clerk, chances upon the records of an anonymous young woman, which sets off an obsession where, consumed by passion, he commits a series of dangerous and unprofessional acts . . . Book weight approx. 300g. PLEASE NOTE: LISTED BOOKS ARE NOT STORED AT SHOP PREMISES. DIGITAL PHOTO AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. . First Thus. Softcover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Diversity Books (Australia)
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Jose Saramago; Translator-Margaret Costa
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Harvest Books. PAPERBACK. 0156010593 New with very slight shelf wear from time on shelf (like you'd see at a major chain). We ship daily, provide personalized customer service and want you to have a great experience purchasing from us. Thank you for your consideration. . New. ( more information) Offered by BennettBooksLtd (United States)
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