About the book: year / "The sandy shore of Torresado, with numerous boats pulled onto land, served as a gathering place for all the farm people. Stretched over your stomach? the children played cards under the shade of the ships. The old men smoked clay pipes brought from Algeria and talked about fishing? or about the wonderful journeys undertaken in former times to Gibraltar or to the coast of Africa before the devil took it into his head to invent what is called a tobacco customs house...” The work is given in the pre-reform alphabet. Translation: Tatiana Herzenstein