Description
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...
The book that has inspired the film ENEMY. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal as two characters, and co-stars Melanie Laurent, Isabella Rossellini, Sarah Gadon, Stephen R. Hart, and Jane Moffat.
About the Author
Jose Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010.
Reviews
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 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780099461654
Author Jose Saramago
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Vintage Classics
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 213g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 18mm
The book that has inspired the film ENEMY. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal as two characters, and co-stars Melanie Laurent, Isabella Rossellini, Sarah Gadon, Stephen R. Hart, and Jane Moffat.
About the Author
Jose Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010.
Reviews
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 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780099461654
Author Jose Saramago
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Vintage Classics
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 213g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 18mm
