![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Can we be reduced to our outward appearance, rather than the sum of our experiences? As he roots out the man's identity, what begins as a whimsical chase becomes a probing investigation into what makes us human. But during the night, when he is awakened by noise, he finds the VCR replaying the video and watches in astonishment as a man who looks exactly like him-or, more specifically, exactly like he did five years earlier, mustachioed and fuller in the face-appears on the screen.Īgainst his own better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. A "wonderfully twisted meditation on identity and individuality" from a Nobel Prize–winning author who pushes fiction to its very limits ( The Boston Globe).Īs this novel by the author of Blindness and All the Names begins, Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. ![]()
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