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Description:

Senhor Jose is a clerk at the Central Registry, where records are stored on the birth, marriage and death of all of the city's populace. Jose stumbles across a record for a woman he has never met and becomes consumed with finding out more about her. His quest for knowledge pushes him to perform in ways he never thought possible.

subjects: Clerks,  Fiction,  Portuguese fiction,  Recording and registration,  Registers of births,  Translations into English,  Vital Statistics,  Registers of births, etc,  Fiction, general,  Collected works (single author, multi-form),  Portugal, fiction,  Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)

Times: 20th century