All the Names

<strong>WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE<br/><br/>José Saramago's mesmerizing classic narrative about the loneliness of individual lives and the universal need for human connection.<br/><br/></strong>Senhor José is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth marriage divorce and death that are his daily routine. But one day when he comes across the records of an anonymous young woman something happens to him. Obsessed Senhor José sets off to follow the thread that may lead him to the woman--but as he gets closer he discovers more about her and about himself than he would ever have wished.The loneliness of people's lives the effects of chance the discovery of love--all coalesce in this extraordinary novel that displays the power and art of José Saramago in brilliant form.