A Desert between Two Seas

Set in the crumbling Spanish missions of nineteenth-century Baja California, this novel follows two grief-stricken people as haunted as the desolate chapels around them: a priest who caused the drowning of a native boy by compelling him to fish for pearls, and a deaf woman trying to outrun her murderous reputation as a pistolera.

Amplasat in misiunile spaniole aflate in decadere din Baja California din secolul al XIX-lea, acest roman urmareste doi oameni indurerati, la fel de bantuiti ca capelele pustii din jurul lor: un preot care a provocat inecul unui baiat bastinas obligandu-l sa pescuiasca perle si o femeie surda care incearca sa scape de reputatia ei criminala de pistolera.