All The Names

Synopsis

Winner of the nobel prize for literaturejosé saramago's mesmerizing, classic narrative about the loneliness of individual lives and the universal need for human connection. Senhor josé is a low-grade clerk in the city's central registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death that are his daily routine. But one day, when he comes across the records of an anonymous young woman, something happens to him.