"Quite unlike anything else" London Review of Books "A Borgesian fable with a marvellous flavour all its own" -- Phillip Hensher, Books of the Year Spectator "A comic and profound exploration of the self... A uniquely seductive writer" Daily Telegraph "The Double is Saramago at his most practised and polished. It is philosophy and thriller rolled into one" Independent "Indebted to Borges and with a nod to Auster, he manages to surpass both with the audacity and sheer erudition of his prose" -- Catherine Taylor The Guardian 20051015