One poor researcher became lost in the labyrinthine catacombs of the archive of the dead, having come to the Central Registry in order to carry out some genealogical research he had been commissioned to undertake. Over the centuries, the paper trail in this hopelessly arcane bureaucracy has grown so monumental, so disorganized that The names in question are those of every man, woman, and child ever born, married, or buried in the unnamed city where the Registry is located, and are the special province of Senhor José who is employed there as a clerk. „ As soon as you cross the threshold, you notice the smell of old paper.” The Central Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths is the setting for All the Names, Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago’s seventh novel to be translated into English.
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