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Title: The Stone Raft
Author: Jose Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero (translator)
Narrator: Eli Carter
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-18-12
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 13 votes
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
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.
Critic Reviews:
"[T]he political reaction to this geological mishap is marvelously amusing - and greatly enhanced by the author's nimble prose and random metaphysical touches." (Publishers Weekly)
"A lovely questing story in a lineage of Don Quixote and Kipling's Kim. [The Stone Raft] may be Saramago's finest work." (Los Angeles Times)
