The Pearl

Paperback, 87 pages

English language

Published Sept. 5, 2002 by Penguin.

ISBN:
978-0-14-200069-4
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Kino is a desperately poor Mexican pearl diver. But when he finds 'The Pearl of the World' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses in his neighbours - and himself.

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Subjects

  • Pearl divers -- Fiction
  • Avarice -- Fiction
  • Mexico -- Fiction