A place where stories are truer than reality. A book you wouldn't expect from the award-winning author of Jesus, The Sentimental Novel or Mona.
Bianca Bell's novel The Island contains secrets and mysteries, loyalty and betrayal, desire and laudanum. The two unheroic heroes, the merchant Izar and the princess Núrit, are engaged in various mischiefs - he tells her stories as old as the world, she devours them like a child. And as for the kid, we also have the shit-kicker's kid, guilty of his stinking occupation, poor and lonely, quiet and humble, yet struggling against fate and the prejudices of other Islanders.
