The Lives Of Things by José Saramago

A collection of imaginative short stories in which ordinary objects—furniture, clothing, tools—narrate or illuminate their own histories, using wit, irony and tenderness to reflect on human behavior, memory, loss and the passage of time; through compact, often parable-like vignettes the prose upends perspective, making the familiar strange and revealing the moral and emotional currents of everyday existence.

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