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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. 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...
Vintage Classics has existed since the inception of Vintage and is widely seen as the top twentieth-century classics list in the UK, publishing Graham Greene, Harper Lee, Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf, among others. August 2007 saw the relaunch of the list and Vintage Classics now also publishes the greatest writers from previous centuries, such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll and Henry James.
| ISBN: | 9780099461654 |
| Publisher: | Random House |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Pub date: | 06 Oct 2005 |
| DEWEY: | 869.342 |
| DEWEY edition: | 22 |
| Language: | English |
| Number of pages: | 292 |
| Weight: | 216g |
| Height: | 197mm |
| Width: | 131mm |
| Spine width: | 20mm |
