If you ever read Garcia Marquez "One Hundred Years of Loneliness" - Cien Años de Soledad - and you were absolutely caught by his narrative strength and exotical imagination, please try with this extraordinary book of Majorcan-Catalan author, that I read with delight in his original catalan version. No doubt that english translation has the level to bring you all the force of the original. It's a non conventional family story located in Majorca along several centurys, a mediterranean saga. A classic in catalan literature.