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The Stone Raft

by (author) Jose Saramago

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Initial publish date
Feb 2001
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780156004015
    Publish Date
    Feb 2001
    List Price
    $23.99

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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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JOSE 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.