The Book of Names
10 hrs. 42 min.
Language
Russian
Author
José Saramago
Author
José Saramago
Narrator
Irina Yerisanova
Narrator
Irina Yerisanova
Description
The hero of "The Book of Names", an employee of the Main Archive of Civil Registry Records — an archive so enormous that one can get lost and disappear without a trace in it — is obsessed with a single passion: he collects newspaper clippings with which he tries to reconstruct the biographies of a hundred famous contemporaries, but quickly becomes convinced that each of them conceals the truth about themselves to one degree or another. Thousands upon thousands of stories, thousands upon thousands of names drift past him, until one of them draws into itself, like a focal point, all of his obsession, drawing him ever deeper into a Kafkaesque labyrinth…
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