The basic premise of the novel is that the Iberian Peninsula has broken off the European continent and is floating freely in the Atlantic Ocean; bureaucrats around the world are forced to deal with the traumatic effects, while five characters from across Portugal and Spain are drawn ever closer to one another, embarking on a journey within the peninsula as the landmass journeys itself.
Rolling Stone | Oliver Stone | Sharon Stone | Stone Cold Steve Austin | Queens of the Stone Age | The Stone Roses | Joss Stone | Stone Temple Pilots | Stone Age | Sly Stone | George Raft | Stone Sour | Lucy Stone | Eli Stone | Bush Stone-curlew | Stone Gossard | Stone | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Emma Stone | Turning Stone Resort & Casino | Sovereign Stone | Mike Stone | I. F. Stone | foundation stone | Sly and the Family Stone | Shane Stone | Rosetta Stone | Romancing the Stone | Power Stone | Mississippian stone statuary |
This theme had been explored previously in fiction by Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe and the robinsonade genre) and Voltaire (Candide), and more recently by William Golding (Lord of the Flies and Pincher Martin), Umberto Eco (The Island of the Day Before), J.M. Coetzee (Foe), José Saramago (The Stone Raft and The Tale of the Unknown Island).