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The Double

Publisher: Mariner Books

Contributors:

José Saramago (Author)

Contributors: José Saramago (Author)

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BISAC categories: Fiction -> Literary

BISAC categories: Fiction -> Women

BISAC categories: Fiction -> Romance -> Time Travel

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The inspiration for the major motion picture "Enemy" starring Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by Denis Villeneuve Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. But during the night, when he is awakened by noises in his apartment, he goes into the living room to find that the VCR is replaying the video. He watches in astonishment as a man who looks exactly like him-or, more specifically, exactly like he did five years before, mustachioed and fuller in the face-appears on the screen. He sleeps badly.

Against his better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double. As he roots out the man's identity, what begins as a whimsical story becomes a "wonderfully twisted meditation on identity and individuality" (The Boston Globe). Saramago displays his remarkable talent in this haunting tale of appearance versus reality.

ISBN-10: 0156032589
ISBN-13: 9780156032582
Author: Saramago, José, N/A, N/A
Publisher: Mariner Books

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780156032582

ISBN-10: 0156032589

Publisher: Mariner Books

Publish Date: October 1, 2005

On Sale Date: October 3, 2005

Language: English

Pages: 336

Dimensions: 7.98 × 6.44 × 0.98 in

Weight: 0.68 lbs

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