On a waterfront stands the pension "Almayer," children who read in dreams to staff and residents who all have a unique history.
The painter who wants to paint the eyes of the sea, the scientist and his infinite encyclopedia, a single woman who awaits the return of a man (or revenge), and protected a priest who suffers from "too mild disease to have a name "and a man who lives in the last room, the one still closed and we do not know anything up to the last page.
This pension are conducted in the stories of chacuns as blown marine wind brings the reader on a raft of shipwrecked up a door Timbuktu, the mysterious cited, which is said that "she did not walls because it has its beauty one will help him to stop the enemy. "
Baricco leads us relentlessly in the whirlwinds of his poetry was both wonderful and tragic tale room where everything mingles, unravels and s' crushed like seas on the rocks next to the "Almayer pension".
Funny, poetic, magical, timeless brief was read for the beauty of the text, style.
