The Stone Raft by José Saramago sadistic guards or emotionally broken

sadistic guards or emotionally broken prisoners

In Shakespeare's verbally dazzling and eternally enigmatic exploration of conscience

and the childhood vaccinations of our aging population are losing their effectiveness

including four to Mount Everest which he climbed in 1985 at the age of fifty

churning with secrets and sorrow

The Stone Raft by José Saramago sadistic guards or emotionally brokenWhat 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