La balsa de piedra / The Stone Raft (Paperback)

from pgmcc

[The Stone Raft] by José Saramago, translated into English from Portugese by Giovanni Pontiero, is entertaining, insightful and, at times, intense. The translator's note informs the reader that Saramago limits his punctuation to full stops and commas. This appears peculiar at first but it works w...

from Castlelass

This has to be one of the most unusual and creative books I have ever read. The Iberian Peninsula breaks off from Europe and becomes a traveling island. It threatens to crash into the Azores. The storyline focuses on three men and two women that feel a sense of responsibility, expressed in terms ...

from bodachliath

This early novel can be seen as the precursor or model for Saramago's later surreal modern parables Blindness, Seeing, and Death at Intervals, all of which explore the consequences of changing one of the natural laws society takes for granted. It has a similar mixture of philosophy, humour and th...

from mattviews

Like BLINDNESS, Jose Saramago nimbly spins off another what-if tale in THE STONE RAFT with a tinge of a political overtone between his native country and Europe. The Iberian peninsula simply breaks free from the European continent: drifting away at an awestruck speed of 750 kilometers a day, spli...

from bodachliath

This early novel can be seen as the precursor or model for Saramago's later surreal modern parables Blindness, Seeing, and Death at Intervals, all of which explore the consequences of changing one of the natural laws society takes for granted. It has a similar mixture of philosophy, humour and th...