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By
Jose Saramago and
Margaret Jull Costa (trans)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Vintage Uk
Publication date
August 5, 2004
Pages
304
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781843430995
ISBN-10
1843430991
Dimensions
1.25 by 5.50 by 8.50 in.
Weight
1 lbs.
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$26.65
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
What happens when Tertuliano Maximo Afonso, a 38 year-old professor of history, discovers that there is a man living in the same city who is identical to him in every physical detail, but not related by blood at all. And what happens when each of these men attempt to investigate each other's lives?
Amazon.com description: Product Description: What happens when Tertuliano M-ximo Afonso, a 38-year-old professor of history, discovers that there is a man living in the same city who is identical to him on every physical detail, but not related by blood at all. And what happens when each of these men attempt to investigate each other's lives? How do we know who we are? What do we mean by identity? What defines us as individual, unique people? Could we ever come to terms with the existence of another person with our voice, our features, our everything, down to the smallest distinguishing mark? Could we change places with our double without those closest to us noticing? Dark yet comic, Jos- Saramago's new novel can be read as an existential thriller, but it is above all a work of literature that immerses us in the essential questions of life. It is certain to become a 21st-century classic.
Editions
Hardcover
from Harcourt (October 31, 2004)
9780151010400 | details & prices | 324 pages | 5.75 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $25.00
About: Renting a recommended video to ease his depression, divorced history teacher Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is unsettled to see a man in the video who looks exactly the way he looked five years earlier.
About: Renting a recommended video to ease his depression, divorced history teacher Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is unsettled to see a man in the video who looks exactly the way he looked five years earlier.
The price comparison is for this edition
from Vintage Uk (August 5, 2004)
9781843430995 | details & prices | 304 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $26.65
About: What happens when Tertuliano Maximo Afonso, a 38 year-old professor of history, discovers that there is a man living in the same city who is identical to him in every physical detail, but not related by blood at all.
About: What happens when Tertuliano Maximo Afonso, a 38 year-old professor of history, discovers that there is a man living in the same city who is identical to him in every physical detail, but not related by blood at all.
Paperback
Rep tra edition from Mariner Books (October 3, 2005)
9780156032582 | details & prices | 324 pages | 5.25 × 7.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $16.95
About: Renting a recommended video to ease his depression, divorced history teacher Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is unsettled to see a man in the video who looks exactly the way he looked five years earlier, and when he decides to find his double, he learns a difficult lesson about the impact of experience on one's identity.
About: Renting a recommended video to ease his depression, divorced history teacher Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is unsettled to see a man in the video who looks exactly the way he looked five years earlier, and when he decides to find his double, he learns a difficult lesson about the impact of experience on one's identity.
Miscellaneous
from Houghton Mifflin (October 3, 2005)
9780547538877 | details & prices | List price $14.00
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