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Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. He embarks on a secret quest to find his double and sets in motion a train of events that he cannot control. Saramago's novel explores the nature of individuality and examines the fear and insecurity that arise when our singularity comes under threat, when even a wife cannot tell the original from the imposter...
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"Quite unlike anything else" (London Review of Books)
"A Borgesian fable with a marvellous flavour all its own" (Phillip Hensher, Books of the Year Spectator)
"A comic and profound exploration of the self... A uniquely seductive writer" (Daily Telegraph)
"The Double is Saramago at his most practised and polished. It is philosophy and thriller rolled into one" (Independent)
"Indebted to Borges and with a nod to Auster, he manages to surpass both with the audacity and sheer erudition of his prose" (Catherine Taylor The Guardian)
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"A Borgesian fable with a marvellous flavour all its own" (Phillip Hensher, Books of the Year Spectator)
"A comic and profound exploration of the self... A uniquely seductive writer" (Daily Telegraph)
"The Double is Saramago at his most practised and polished. It is philosophy and thriller rolled into one" (Independent)
"Indebted to Borges and with a nod to Auster, he manages to surpass both with the audacity and sheer erudition of his prose" (Catherine Taylor The Guardian)
Wherein lies our identity? An existential thriller and work of literature that takes on the essential questions of life
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- PublisherVintage Classics
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 009946165X
- ISBN 13 9780099461654
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- Number of pages304
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