Description

Senhor José is just a low grade worker in the town's Central Registry, where in actuality the living and the dead share exactly the same shelf-space. A middle aged bachelor, he's no-interest in anything beyond the records of birth, marriage, divorce, and death which are his everyday program. But oneday, when he results in the documents of an unknown young woman, anything occurs to him. Preoccupied, Senhor José sparks to check out the line that might direct him to the girl-but as he gets deeper, he discovers more about her, and about herself, than he'd actually have wished.The isolation of individuals's lives, the results of opportunity, the finding of love-all coalesce in this remarkable book that shows the ability and craft of José Saramago in amazing form.