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What if, one day, Europe was to crack along the length of the Pyrenees, separating the Iberian peninsula from the rest of Europe?
In Saramago's fable, the new island is sent spinning, like a great stone raft, towards the Azores. While the authorities panic and tourists and investors flee, three men, two women and a dog are drawn together by omens that burden them with a peculiar responsibility. The six take to the road, travelling packed into a car, then into a wagon, to explore the limits of their now finite land, adrift in an unfamiliar world and forced to reckon with their relationships, human psychology and the shakiness of belief itself.
In Saramago's fable, the new island is sent spinning, like a great stone raft, towards the Azores. While the authorities panic and tourists and investors flee, three men, two women and a dog are drawn together by omens that burden them with a peculiar responsibility. The six take to the road, travelling packed into a car, then into a wagon, to explore the limits of their now finite land, adrift in an unfamiliar world and forced to reckon with their relationships, human psychology and the shakiness of belief itself.
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"An irresistible blend of shrewd detail and lyrical fantasy... A seductive novel that needs to be savoured" (Helen Dunmore Observer)
"An invitation to one of the richest bodies of work by a living writer" (Amanda Hopkinson New Statesman)
"Jose Saramago's brilliant evocation...is magical realism of a sort that stirs real wonder" (James Park Time Out)
"Saramago's lovely and original questing story, in a lineage of others such as Don Quixote and Kipling's Kim, is a journey of the spirit told as a journey of the feet" (Richard Eder Los Angeles Times)
"Tremendous wit is always apparent in his imaginative conceits, comic digression and verbal and narrative games" (Ian Critchley Sunday Times)
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"An invitation to one of the richest bodies of work by a living writer" (Amanda Hopkinson New Statesman)
"Jose Saramago's brilliant evocation...is magical realism of a sort that stirs real wonder" (James Park Time Out)
"Saramago's lovely and original questing story, in a lineage of others such as Don Quixote and Kipling's Kim, is a journey of the spirit told as a journey of the feet" (Richard Eder Los Angeles Times)
"Tremendous wit is always apparent in his imaginative conceits, comic digression and verbal and narrative games" (Ian Critchley Sunday Times)
A majestic tale, rich in allegory, wit and philosophy; another masterpiece from the Nobel prize-winning novelist Jose Saramago.
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- PublisherVintage Classics
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1860467210
- ISBN 13 9781860467219
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- Number of pages288
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