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Don José has been working at the Population Registry Central Archive for twenty-five years. He spends his days with birth, marriage, divorce and death certificates in the Archive, where records of the living and the dead are kept and a hierarchical order is applied. However, Don José has a passion that he hides from everyone: collecting clippings about famous people that he cuts from newspapers and magazines. Don José's ordinary life changes direction when the receipt of an unknown woman gets mixed up in the files he secretly takes from the Archive to add to his collection. Don José is consumed by the desire to learn everything about this woman's life. Don José, driven mad by this passion that almost turns into an obsession, embarks on a dark path full of unknowns. As he continues his research, he learns shocking things about the unknown woman and himself.

Nobel Prize in Literature winner José Saramago, with this absurd, creepy, surreal and fascinating text, tells his readers about people's loneliness, It conveys the power and impact of coincidences and the fine line between the living and the dead with an original narrative.

“A provocative novel, variable and unsettling, with metaphorical labyrinths and misleading readers. "It's full of clues."

The Herald

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Number of Pages: 256< /p>

First Printing Year: 2012

Media Type: Paperback

Size: 14x21