by José Saramago · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420484402
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«La balsa de piedra» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Alfaguara in paperback (416 pages, in Spanish).
The plot begins with a fracture in the Pyrenees that splits the Iberian Peninsula from the continent and sets it adrift on the Atlantic. Two women, three men and a dog cross that geography on a journey that becomes a fable about Iberian identity, the bond between Spain and Portugal, and tensions with Europe.
Edition from the Biblioteca Saramago collection by Alfaguara. The novel was originally published in Portuguese as A Jangada de Pedra; José Saramago received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
For readers of contemporary fiction and magical realism, with an interest in European literature and in political and ethical tensions of identity.
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."
