![]() ![]() ***Uncorrected Proof Copy of the first impression of the first edition in English, with full number-string sequence including the no. Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. ![]() Category: Fiction Thriller Portugal ISBN: 1843430991. ![]() He does and the entanglement that follows has the elements of a thriller, as the double's wife and Afonso's girlfriend are pulled, fatally, into the drama. Afonso become obsessed with the need to meet the actor. Close scrutiny of a series of films reveals the actor even has moles in the same place, and the same accident scar on his knee. A history teacher, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso, watches a video and in it he sees an actor who looks and sounds exactly like him. 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Saramago's novel deals with the fragility of identity. This book is available and ready to be shipped. Library stamps etc only on endpapers, half-title page. Dust jacket has been protected by it's library plastic cover. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. ![]()
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