{"product_id":"9780547545318","title":"The Stone Raft","description":"\u003cb\u003eA “marvelously amusing” political fable in which part of the European continent breaks off and drifts away on its own (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e A Nobel Prize winner who has been called “the García Márquez of Portugal” (\u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e) chronicles world events on a human scale in this exhilarating allegorical novel.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e One day, quite inexplicably, the Iberian Peninsula simply breaks free from the European continent and begins to drift as if it were a sort of stone raft. Panic ensues as residents and tourists attempt to escape, while crowds gather on cliffs to watch the newly formed island sail off into the sea.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Meanwhile, five people on the island are drawn together—first by a string of surreal events and then by love. Taking to the road to explore the limits of their now finite land, they find themselves adrift in a world made new by this radical shift in perspective. As bureaucrats ponder what to do about their unusual predicament, the intertwined lives of these five strangers are clarified and forever changed by a physical, spiritual, and sexual voyage to an unknown destination.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e At once an epic adventure and a profound fable about the state of the European project, \u003ci\u003eThe Stone Raft\u003c\/i\u003e is a “hauntingly lyrical narrative with political, social, and moral underpinnings” (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e) that “may be Saramago’s finest work” (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTranslated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123042107632,"sku":"9780547545318","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547545318_p0.jpg?v=1763716399","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547545318","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}