The Stone Raft

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Title The Stone Raft
Author José Saramago
Original title A Jangada de Pedra
Country Portugal
Language Portuguese
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher
Released 1986
Released in English 1994
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN ISBN 0151851980

The Stone Raft (Portuguese: A Jangada de Pedra) is a novel by Nobel Prize in Literature-winning Portuguese writer José Saramago. It first appeared in Portuguese in 1986, and was translated into English in 1994. The basic premise of the novel is that the Iberian Peninsula has broken off the European continent and is floating freely in the Atlantic Ocean; bureaucrats around the world are forced to deal with the traumatic effects, while five characters from across Portgual and Spain are drawn ever closer to one another, embrarking on a journey within the peninsula as the landmass journeys itself.



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