He attempts his work sedulously, with great precision and sense of responsibility, despite his suffering from vertigo caused by a fear of height when he climbs the ladder to access files on ceiling-to-floor shelves. In his early fifties, José has a laudable modesty of those who do not go around complaining about the voluminous workload befallen him. Senhor José’s life is nothing but ordinary: in an unnamed city he works as a lowly clerk for the Central Registry of Births, Marriages and Death where the living and dead permanently share the same shelf in a single archive. To Kill a Mockingbir… on To Kill A Mockingbird…ĭeanna Friel on The Price of Salt (Carol… The HKIA brings Hong… on Island and Peninsula 島與半… The Hand That First Held Mine, Maggie O'Farrellĭiana Thoughts on… on The Luminaries – E… The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguroġ8. Death with Interruptions, Jose Saramagoġ5. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevskyħ. The Master and Margarita, Mikhail BulgakovĤ.
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