Stone Raft

Zusatztext

<p>What if, one day, Europe was to crack along the length of the Pyrenees, separating the Iberian peninsula?</p><p>In Saramago's lovely fable, the new island is sent spinning, like a great stone raft, towards the Azores. While the authorities panic and tourists and investors flee, three men, two women and a dog are drawn together by portents that burden them with a bemusing sense of responsibility. Travelling at first packed into a car, then into a wagon, they take to the road to explore the limits of their now finite land, adrift in a world made new by this radical shift in perspective.</p>

Autorenportrait

<b>José Saramago</b>is one of the most important international writers of the<b></b>last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of<i>Baltasar and Blimunda</i>. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010.

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