For 10 points, name this speculative novel in which the Iberian Peninsula breaks off the European mainland, written by Jose Saramago
A character in this novel remarks that discoveries of human remains, such as Java Man, are always men because Eve hadn't been created yet. In this novel, a political meme becomes so pervasive that it is even emblazoned in Latin all over St. Peter's Square and the Vatican Palace. Two lovers in this novel are literally bound together by an endless thin blue thread. A large flock of starlings make the noise "vruuuuu" as they follows a character in this novel wherever he goes. Amusingly, the protagonists of this novel decide to travel on two actual horses after abandoning a two (*) horsepower French car nicknamed Deux Chevaux. At the start of this novel, a woman sweeps the ground with an elm branch, causing the dogs of Cerbere to bark for the first time in centuries. In this novel, Maria Guavaira, Joaquim Sassa, Joana Carda, Pedro Orce, and Jose Anaico band together after a geographic calamity. For 10 points, name this speculative novel in which the Iberian Peninsula breaks off the European mainland, written by Jose Saramago
A character in this novel remarks that discoveries of human remains, such as Java Man, are always men because Eve hadn't been created yet.
The Stone Raft [or A jangada de pedra]