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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: 272 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
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Weight: 197g
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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?
In Saramago's lovely 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 portents that burden them with a bemusing sense of responsibility. Travelling at first packed into a car, then into a wagon, they take to the road to explore the limits of their now finite land, adrift in a world made new by this radical shift in perspective.
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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: 272 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
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Weight: 197g
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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
