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The Stone Raft by José Saramago

2.0

I read this novel for one of my book groups and it is one of my least favorite book group selections. I had previously read Jose Saramago's Blindness and liked it and I was pleased this was chosen. Saramag's novels seem to start with a catastrophe which leads to the characters having to live their lives in a very different way. In this novel, the characters were types instead of fleshed out people making me less interested in their outcomes. It is written without quotation marks and page long paragraphs which made it hard to get into. On the plus side, the last third breezes by as the style becomes more familiar. I think this is for Saramago's biggest fans; if it wasn't for book club it would have been DNF. The second star was for the premise of the Iberian peninsula breaking away from Europe.