Every Second Monday
Book Discussion: All the Names
Monday December 11, 2023 at 7:00PM
Pleasant Valley Branch
Event Description
Limited free copies of the book will be available. Discussions will be held in-person at the Library locations indicated. Ask your librarian for details.
All the Names by José Saramago
From the 1998 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, All the Names is a modern parable about the dangers of anonymity. The unprepossessing Senhor José, a middle-aged bachelor, works as a clerk in a nameless large city’s Central Registry—an Orwellian maze whose largest section is eternally extended backward, to accommodate the records of the ever-increasing ranks of the deceased. A chance fascination with an unknown woman sends him on an odyssey of discovery: a journey that lures the timid civil servant dangerously far out of his shell, involves him in forgery, burglary, and other misdeeds, while simultaneously risking his health (if not his life), and courts the displeasure of the all-knowing, omnipotent Registrar—who, in the dazzling finale, will determine Senhor José’s fate.
When
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Monday December 11, 2023
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Where
Pleasant Valley Boardroom
Pleasant Valley Branch
5568 S Adams Ave
Washington Terrace UT
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