Stone Raft.
First Edition of The Stone Raft; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Jose Saramago
Stone Raft.
SARAMAGO, Jose.
$450.00
Item Number: 139
New York: Harcourt, 1995.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s third book to be translated into English. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed and dated by Jose Saramago on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.
The Stone Raft tells the story of the Iberian Peninsula breaking free of Europe and begins to drift across the North Atlantic, five people are drawn together on the newly formed island-first by surreal events and then by love. “A splendidly imagined epic voyage...a fabulous fable” (Kirkus Reviews).
