![]() ![]() ![]() As this novel by the author of Blindness and All the Names begins, Tertuliano Mximo Afonso is a. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. 'The Double is Saramago at his most practised and polished. Read The Double by Jos Saramago with a free trial. ***Uncorrected Proof Copy of the first impression of the first UK edition of José Saramago's masterpiece: The Double. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as. A hint of very light rubbing to extremities. About the author (2005) José Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. A small round indentation to the front cover which affects the first few pages. ***Near fine in black and blue illustrated card wrappers, with the front and rear wrappers printed "upside-down" to each other. ***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. There are just a small handful of characters in this book and the most prominent, though the story is not about this character, is that of the capricious narrator - or maybe narrators, because they refer to themselves as 'we' maybe meaning the muses, maybe meaning the so-called Victoria 'we'. ![]()
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