"Fernando Poo, la antigua colonia española del golfo de Guinea, es a finales del siglo XIX, la cárcel natural en la que confinar a todos aquellos a los que se les niega el futuro. A esta remota isla será destinado el soldado Moisés Corvo, un joven bravucón, libertino, tramposo y bebedor. Nada hace pensar a nuestro intrépedo protagonista que su estancia en Bioko, nobre con el que los nativos conocen la isla, se convertirá en la peor de sus pesadillas." -- Page 4 of cover In the late nineteenth century, Fernando Poo, former Spanish colony in the Gulf of Guinea, is a jail in which to confine all those who are denied the future. The soldier Moises Corvo, who is young, boastful, rakish, a cheater and a drunkard, is destined to end up on this remote island. Nothing suggests to the intrepid Corvo his stay in Bioko, what the natives call the Island, will become his worst nightmare.

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