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'Under the Stone is a well-crafted and imaginative book that is as densely packed as the claustrophobic living quarters from which the story emanates. With such density it carries both ambition and baggage. There are few titles in Canadian literature that meet the same level of daring as Under the Stone while still managing to retain their balance.'

'Unclassifiable, this exercise of writing that we can only perceive as a traditional ‘novel of anticipation’, both the disturbing strangeness that emerges could equally belong to the fantastic, the psychological novel, as to a poetic experience. It could well be that Karoline Georges has created a new genre, the claustrophobic novel, but it proves that despite all the constraints, a writer can create the most unthinkable worlds by the sole force of his imagination.'

'Under the Stone, the most recent story from Karoline Georges, is an unclassifiable literary creation. A genetically modified story, whose DNA includes a strain of poetry, affiliation to sci-fi scripts (think Big Brother and Green Sun) and the remains of a fable about the birth of the first one, of the freedom of the individual, all swathed in philosophy. [ … ], it is the literary UFO of the new school year.'