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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. 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 *

The Double

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    A Paperback / softback by José Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Classics
      Published 6 October 2005
      ISBN-13 9780099461654
      978-0099461654
      ISBN-10 009946165X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. 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...

      Trade Review
      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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