The Double by Jose Saramago

1998 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Saramago's novel deals with the fragility of identity. A history teacher, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso, watches a video and in it he sees an actor who looks and sounds exactly like him. 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. Afonso become obsessed with the need to meet the actor. 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. This 2004 Harvill Hardback is in near mint condition. DJ.

ISBN: 9781843430995 SKU: 1583380 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

SKU: 1583380
Location: Fiction