The island of last truth
By: Flavia Company ; translated from the Catalan by Laura McGloughlin
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781609450816
Subjects: Islands; Fiction; Shipwrecks; Pirates
Work titles: Illa de l'última veritat
Description: After a pirate attack on his sailboat and the death of his shipmates, Mathew Prendel, a doctor, is shipwrecked on an almost entirely uninhabited island. The only person who lives there is Nelson Souza, the pirate responsible for the deaths of his friends and for his being shipwrecked. Mathew thought he had killed him in his escape and now, paradoxically, the pirate saves his life. This is the start of a difficult coexistence marked by Souza's dominance and his secrets that will end with Souza's death and Mathew's return to civilization.Years later on his deathbed, Mathew asks his lover Phoebe Westore, Ph. D. in literature, to write up his life story in a letter and send it to the Souza family.