# All The Names

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- Book: [All The Names](https://www.bookquiver.com/jose-saramago/all-the-names) ([All The Names.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jose-saramago/all-the-names.md))
- Authors: [José Saramago](https://www.bookquiver.com/jose-saramago)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4811-289-0
- Published: 2013-09-20
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago Senhor José is a lonely civil servant who spends his days labouring in the labyrinthine stacks of Lisbon's central registry. Among the file-cards for the living and the dead, one – of an apparently ordinary woman – will transform his life. Breaking away from his strict routine, José resolves to track the woman down, obsessively following a thread of clues in a bid to rescue her from an oblivion deeper than the grave. 'When a very good book finds us at just the right moment in life, it can become stitched into our own identity. All the Names – a novel about identity and connection – has become stitched into mine' Samantha Harvey, Independent