Quotes from book
The Stone Raft

Name: The Stone Raft
Author: José Saramago

José SaramagoOriginal title A Jangada de Pedra (Portuguese, 1986)

The Stone Raft is a novel by Portuguese writer José Saramago. It was written in 1986, and was translated into English by Giovanni Pontiero in 1994. The premise of the novel is that the Iberian Peninsula has broken off the European continent and is floating freely in the Atlantic Ocean; bureaucrats around the world are forced to deal with the traumatic effects, while five characters from across Portugal and Spain are drawn ever closer to one another, embarking on a journey within the peninsula as the landmass journeys itself.

“The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.”

José Saramago book The Stone Raft

Introduction
The Stone Raft (1994)

“So often we need a whole lifetime in order to change our life, we think a great deal, weigh things up and vacillate, then we go back to the beginning, we think and think, we displace ourselves on the tracks of time with a circular movement, like those clouds of dust, dead leaves, debris, that have no strength for anything more, better by far that we should live in a land of hurricanes.”

José Saramago book The Stone Raft

The Stone Raft (1994)