El lenguaje de las tortugas

En mitad de un tórrido agosto, el sargento Bevilacqua recibe la orden de investigar la muerte de una extranjera cuyo cadáver ha aparecido en una urbanización mallorquina. Su compañera será la inexperta agente Chamorro, y con ella deberá sumergirse de incógnito en un ambiente de clubes nocturnos, playas nudistas, trapicheos dudosos y promiscuidades diversas.

Security specialist Daisy Parker is not prepared to see her ex-lover, photographer Nick Coltrane, walk through the door, but despite his hasty exit nine years earlier, she agrees to take him on as a client anyway.

"The land that resonates" is the story of three generations of women, essential elements of an attractive rural atmosphere despite its poverty , which scrape the margins of international turmoil , political instability, foreign intervention, causes of extreme disorganization of their existences. Simone Francilia, Charity, authentic Haitian farmers, cultivating the land, caring for their children, not to mention their men shoulder to honor their dead and their gods. Guarantee of a subsistence economy in decline due to the gradual exodus, they struggle in a climate of economic exploitation,...

From his village in post-war France, Brodeck makes his solitary journeys into the mountains to collect data on the natural environment. Day by day he also reconstructs his own life, all but lost in the years he spent in a camp during the war. No-one had expected to see him again. One day, a flamboyant stranger rides into the village, upsetting the fragile balance of everyday life. Soon he is named the Anderer, "the other," and tensions rise until, one night, the newcomer is murdered. Brodeck is instructed to write an account of the events leading to his death, but his report delivers much...