Stone Raft.
First Edition of The Stone Raft; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Jose Saramago
Stone Raft.
SARAMAGO, Jose.
$400.00
Item Number: 140682
New York: Harcourt, 1995.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s third book to be translated into English. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Harold Jose Saramago 29.10.2008.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Paola Piglia. Jacket design by Steven Cooley. 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).
