All the Names

First US edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 239, [3 (blank)]. Mustard-yellow paper boards, lettered in silver to spine; matching yellow endpapers. Jacket design by Claudine Guerguerian (priced $24.00 to front flap). Stated first U.S. edition with complete letter line beginning with "A". Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. Winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Originally published in 1997 as Todos os Nomes by Editorial Caminho.

Author's seventh novel to be translated into English. A psychological thriller set in a Central Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths in which a reclusive middle-aged bachelor and low-grade clerk becomes fixated on an anonymous woman by the chance discovery of her birth certificate. Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. "This novel reveals a master far from content to rest on his laurels." –The Wall Street Journal