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. Read More
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. Read Less
