Jose Saramago Additional Author mixed material bibliography Harvill 1994

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263 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. Portugal 1860467210 C2O library Online catalog (BETA) F SAR Sto 4062 C2O library & collabtive (Fiction & Literature) 10000 TheStoneRaft.jpg 3947 2015-01-02 09:50:52 2015-01-02 09:50:52 machine generated