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 
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]