Name: La Balsa de Piedra (in Spanish)
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Author: José Saramago
ISBN: 9788466369961

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jose Saramago

Publisher

Punto De Lectura

Year

2007

Language

Spanish

Pages

400

Format

Paperback

ISBN

8466369961

ISBN13

9788466369961

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "La Balsa de Piedra (in Spanish)"

Nosotros también somos ibéricos. De la noche a la mañana Europa apareció cubierta con esta pintada."La balsa de piedra" parte de un audaz planteamiento narrativo. Una grieta abierta espontáneamente a lo largo de los Pirineos provoca la separación del continente europeo de toda la península Ibérica, transformándola en una gran isla flotante, moviéndose sin remos ni velas ni hélices en dirección al sur del mundo, camino de una utopía nueva: el encuentro cultural de los pueblos del otro lado del Atlántico, desafiando así el dominio sofocante que Estados Unidos de la América del Norte vienen ejerciendo en aquellos parajes.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONA large crack along the Pyrenees separates the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe. Spain and Portugal become a great floating island, without oars, sails and propellers, drifting toward a new utopia. The cultural encounter between Europeans and Latin Americans will help to establish an equilibrium between the people of these two worlds.

Jose Saramago

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José Saramago (Azinhaga, 1922-Tías, Lanzarote, 2010) is one of the most well-known and appreciated Portuguese writers worldwide. In Spain, since the first publication of The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis in 1985, his literary work received the best reception from readers and critics. Other important titles include The Widow, Manual of Painting and Calligraphy, Raised from the Ground, Baltasar and Blimunda, The Stone Raft, The History of the Siege of Lisbon, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Blindness, All the Names, The Cave, The Double, Seeing, Death with Interruptions, The Elephant's Journey, Cain, Skylight, and Alabardas. Alfaguara has also published Complete Poetry, Lanzarote Notebooks I and II, Journey to Portugal, the short story The Tale of the Unknown Island, the children's story The Biggest Flower in the World, the autobiographical book Small Memories, The Notebook, José Saramago in His Words, a compilation of the author's statements collected in the press, The Last Notebook, What Will You Do with This Book. Complete Plays and The Nobel Year Notebook. He received the Camões Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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