All the Names (Paperback)
$13.30 - Save $0.71 (5%) - RRP $14.01 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for All the Names Senhor Jose is a minor official in a registry office, with a passion for reconstructing people's lives from the data in archive documents. One woman's file is particularly intriguing. She is dead, and he decides to trace her life backwards, from death to birth. But can he bring her back to life?
Full description- Publisher: The Harvill Press
- Published: 01 June 2000
- Format: Paperback 256 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781860467202 ISBN 10: 1860467202
- Sales rank: 66,383
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Full description for All the Names
Among the file-cards for the living and the dead, one - of an apparently ordinary woman - will transform his life. By day Senhor Jose labours in the labyrinthine stacks of the city's central registry. By night he ferrets for facts about the famous, compiling his own archive of births, deaths and marriages. One day he chances upon an index card of an ordinary woman whose details hold as much fascination for him as any celebrity's. Striking forth from the regimentation of his daily life, Jose starts to track the woman down, obsessively following a thread of clues in a bid to rescue her from an oblivion deeper than the grave.
