The stone raft
(Book)

"A Harvest Book" "Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for literature" -- cover. "One day, quite inexplicably, the Iberian Peninsula simply breaks away from France and the rest of the continent and begins to drift as if it were a sort of stone raft. Pandemonium set in; tourists panic; crowds gather on Spanish cliffs to watch as the newly formed island sails by. Meanwhile five people on the island are drawn together, first by a string of surreal events and then by love. As the bewildered government ponders what to do about the disaster, the intertwined lives of the five strangers are clarified and forever changed by their geographical, spiritual, and sexual voyage to an unknown destination." -- back cover.