He is one of those few extraordinary beings in the broadest sense of the term. From his rugged birth he seems to bear a destiny as intense as it is terrible. The same inspires fascination for his great beauty and intelligence, that envy among his most intimate friends, who enjoy and constantly suffer their magnetism. As a friend he tells his story with the rural south of the United States as a melancholy background where he himself, his friend and rival Clay, his wife Cora and his lover Sarah are involved in a plot of love and jealousy, where everything revolves and converges around To Les. The result is a beautiful and tragic book in equal parts, where the poetic vocation of Forrest Gander, who has written a little masterpiece, is revealed on every page.