Description
Prize-winning young talent – Bonnefoy’s first novel, Octavio’s Journey, has sold more than 25,000 copies in France and has been awarded the Prix Edmée de la Rochefoucauld, Prix de la Vocation and Prix Fénéon, was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt First Novel Award and was highly commended by the Prix des Cinq Continents
A fresh voice in the magical realist tradition
A new colourful fable about greed and corruption in Venezuela, the story tells of hidden treasure and the legendary privateer Henry Morgan, the inspiration for Captain Morgan rum