The Stone Raft

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 263. Maroon cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Translator's Note. Jacket illustration by Paola Piglia. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. Originally published in 1986 by Editorial Caminho, Lisbon, as A Jangada de Pedra. Issued simultaneously with the wrappered edition and preceding the Harcourt Brace, U.S. edition, published in 1995.

Author's fourth novel to be translated into English. Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. A surreal political fable detailing the Iberian Peninsula's (literal) breaking away from The Great Continent, published six years before the Maastricht Treaty established the European Union, and 24 years before the Brexit referendum. Basis for the 2002 Spanish-language film version La Balsa de Piedra, directed by George Sluizer. "[A] narrative tour de force by 'a world-class writer.'" –USA Today