num_pages: 244
description: A novel about power and the abuses of power, by a master storyteller and his gift for weaving a spellbinding narrative.Senhor Jose is an official in a registry office, with a passion for unearthing every detail and reconstructing people's lives from the bare data in the archive documents. One file in particular challenges him: a woman's date and place of birth are missing, and so he begins his research in earnest.
language: English
title: All The Names
titlecomplete: All The Names
characters: Sr. José
genres: Novels, Portuguese Literature, Literature, Nobel Prize, Magical Realism, Contemporary, Romance, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Portugal
ratings_count: 20984
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Mikael Agricola -palkinto
publisher: Harvill