The Stone Raft by José Saramago

The Stone Raft by José SaramagoWhat 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

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The closing sections of the book reflect what now seems to be the inexorable rise of Asia and the increasingly troubled situation in the West

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In exploring the manifestations of human spiritual experience both in the imaginative activities of the individual and in the formation of mythologies and of religious symbolism in various cultures

A story which evokes a bygone rural life

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