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Imagine if you suddenly found out that you had a double. He has your body, face and voice - everything is identical. That's exactly what happened to Tertulianu Masimu Afonsu, a history teacher, who one day found out he had a double. One day, while watching a film, he recognised himself in another: one of the actors was his exact copy. After this unexpected discovery, Tertullian Massimou Afonsou, who leads a lonely and boring life, decides to find this man.

The events of this story unfold in an unpredictable way - the loss of identity in a society that cultivates personality and at the same time sets narrow standards of behaviour and appearance.

In The Double, José Saramagu builds an extraordinary fiction based on a highly relevant and disturbing theme: the loss of identity in a globalised world.