Fiction. Translated from the Norweigian by James Anderson. In 1833 a young Englishman known as Don Carlos finds himself in Buenos Aires. He meets a casual laborer, Giovanni Graciani, from Italy. These two short penetrating novels recount Giovanni's abandonment of faith, the political upheavals and the bloody events of Argentine history, and his encounter with Don Carlos - who in reality is Charles Robert Darwin, on a voyage that will change forever the way man perceives his world. The Italian struggles with the fact that Darwin is both highly religious and on the verge of establishing a whole new world of scientificism. Together these works reveal a philosophical and almost metaphysical battle between scientific logic and blind faith. Acclaimed in many countries, "a rich intellectual adventure" - Kirkus Reviews.