La Isla is a secluded, lushly overgrown estate, not far from Havana. It is home to an eccentric array of characters. Their lives and futures are the subject of this novel set in the months immediately prior to Fidel Castro's revolution.
In a series of delicately interlaced stories, four lives, separated by millenia, are touched by the mysterious Book of Crows - a mythical book in which the entire history of the world - past, present and future - is written down. A stunning, lyrical exploration on fate, authority and self-determination.
