The Stone Raft
A line scratched in the dirt, a stone thrown further than any arm could, a flock of starlings that will not leave one man alone — and then the Pyrenees split and the Iberian peninsula drifts off into the Atlantic. Five strangers and a dog find each other and cross the moving country by cart while Europe and America argue over where to put it. Saramago's reply to Iberia's absorption into the European Community, written the year Portugal joined.
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