Shifting between love affairs, friendships, and enmities of multiple generations, this rich and complex saga follows a life spent on the water as Carlos, an orphan living in a Spanish hacienda, runs away to sea. Sprawling in its themes and geography-from the Golfo de Valencia to Calcutta, from London to Sydney, and from South Dakota to Broome-this narrative concerns the wanton destructiveness of human beings and their slender opportunities for redemption.
