The Stone Raft: An Alternate History Where Spain and Portugal Break Free – A 20th Century Epic Love Story (Harvest Book) - Softcover

Saramago, José

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156004011 ISBN 13: 9780156004015

Verlag: Mariner Books, 1996

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When the Iberian Peninsula breaks free of Europe and begins to drift across the North Atlantic, five people are drawn together on the newly formed island-first by surreal events and then by love. “A splendidly imagined epic voyage...a fabulous fable” (Kirkus Reviews). Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.

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JOSÉ SARAMAGO (1922–2010) was the author of many novels, among them Blindness, All the Names, Baltasar and Blimunda, and The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Joana Carda scratches the ground with an elm branch and the mute dogs of Cerbere begin to bark, portending doom. The earth cracks open and the Iberian peninsula separates from Europe and floats off into the Atlantic. The people flee the coastal areas in a mass exodus, to wander, disoriented, across the floating, spinning island's interior. Among them are a group of strangers who wind up in the home of Maria Guavaira: Joaquim Sassa, who threw a stone into the sea and then found himself in Maria's bed; Joana Carda, who cut the earth in two; Jose Anaico, the king of the starlings; Pedro Orce, who can make the earth tremble with his feet; and a dog with no name and every name. At once an epic adventure and a timely political fable about the vicissitudes of the European Community, The Stone Raft is a narrative tour de force.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Mariner Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0156004011
• ISBN 13: 9780156004015
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 300
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