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