by José Saramago · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420406008
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«La balsa de piedra» is the Haiti special edition of José Saramago's novel, published by Alfaguara in paperback (400 pages, in Spanish).
A crack runs through the Pyrenees and the Iberian Peninsula breaks away from the continent to drift in the Atlantic. Saramago turns this premise into a reflection on Iberian identity, the common heritage of Portugal and Spain, and their relationship with Europe.
The work was originally published as «A Jangada de Pedra» in 1986. The proceeds from the sale of this edition are donated in full to the International Red Cross for the victims of the Haiti earthquake.
For readers of contemporary fiction and magical realism interested in allegories about Iberian identity and the peninsula's relationship with Europe.
José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today" and in 2010 said he considers Saramago to be "a permanent part of the Western canon", while James Wood praises "the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone both wise and ignorant."
