Toward the end of this novel, the central characters receive news that vast numbers of women are pregnant. That character, Roque Lozano, travels with the main characters to bury a dead pharmacist. One character in this novel carries an elm twig that she eventually places at the site of that pharmacist's grave, and discovers that a line she scratches in the dirt with that twig never disappears. At one point in this novel, the protagonists are startled to see a stray dog with a bit of blue wool hanging from his mouth, and the flock of starlings that follows JosÃ© AnaiÃ§o wherever he goes departs as soon as he meets Joana Carda. A central event in this novel is heralded when all of the dogs of a certain breed begin to bark and Pedro Orce feels a rumbling beneath his f
Toward the end of this novel, the central characters receive news that vast numbers of women are pregnant. That character, Roque Lozano, travels with the main characters to bury a dead pharmacist. One character in this novel carries an elm twig that she eventually places at the site of that pharmacist's grave, and discovers that a line she scratches in the dirt with that twig never disappears. At one point in this novel, the protagonists are startled to see a stray dog with a bit of blue wool hanging from his mouth, and the flock of starlings that follows JosÃ© AnaiÃ§o wherever he goes departs as soon as he meets Joana Carda. A central event in this novel is heralded when all of the dogs of a certain breed begin to bark and Pedro Orce feels a rumbling beneath his feet. For 10 points, name this novel in which the Iberian peninsula breaks off from the European continent, written by JosÃ© Saramago.
Toward the end of this novel, the central characters receive news that vast numbers of women are pregnant.
The Stone Raft [or A jangada de pedra]