![]() A storm is in the offing Bolivar and Hector should be returning to port, not leaving it. The South American beach where Bolivar keeps his boat is strewn with symbols of their coming voyage, among them an old man whose “songs are sung to the bones of the dead”. His temporary assistant, Hector, an adolescent who turns up in a sweater with a pirate logo and who has only ever fished the local lagoon, is failing to earn his respect. To make enough money to fix it before his pursuers cut off his ears, he needs to catch fish. ![]() B olivar, sometimes known as Porky, an experienced fisherman whose hands are large and whose plastic sandals are held together with tape, has done something stupid. ![]()
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