La Carta Esferica / The Nautical Chart (Spanish edition)
 

La Carta Esferica / The Nautical Chart (Spanish edition)

by Arturo Perez-Reverte

A nautical chart can be much more than an indispensable instrument to navigate from one place to another; it is an etching, a page from history, and sometimes even an adventure novel.
Just published by Alfaguara, La carta esférica by Arturo Pérez-Reverte is the story of a sailor without a ship, exiled from the ocean, who meets a woman who returns to him the adventure of the sea. ... (read more)

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Elisabeth B
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"I have swum through oceans and sailed through libraries. -Herman Melville, Moby Dick We could call him Ishmael, but in truth his name is Coy. I met him in the next-to-last act of this story, when he was on the verge of becoming just one more shipwrecked sailor floating on his coffin as the whaler Rachel looked for lost sons. By then he had already been drifting some, including the afternoon when he came to the Claymore auction gallery in Barcelona with the intention of killing time. He had...

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Trev
  • Rated 2 stars

Disappointing ending.

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