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Synopsis

This novel was the winner of the Weidenfeld Translation Prize for Margaret Jull Costa's translation from the Portuguese. Saramago tells the story of a passive, mild man who has little interest in anything beyond his job as a low-level clerk in an office that records births and deaths. When he comes across the birth certificate for a mysterious young woman, however, he becomes strangely obsessed with finding out more about her, and his lonely life may never be the same.

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