Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 01/06/2000
ISBN: 9781860467219
Length: 288 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
Weight: 232g
RRP: £9.99
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.
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 01/06/2000
ISBN: 9781860467219
Length: 288 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
Weight: 232g
RRP: £9.99
"An irresistible blend of shrewd detail and lyrical fantasy... A seductive novel that needs to be savoured"
"An invitation to one of the richest bodies of work by a living writer"
"Jose Saramago's brilliant evocation...is magical realism of a sort that stirs real wonder"
"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"
"Tremendous wit is always apparent in his imaginative conceits, comic digression and verbal and narrative games"