The author of The Curious Incident of the Dog at Midnight returns with his best narrative. The sinking of the wharf, which gives the title to this volume, is the first of the stories that make up the masterly nine stories that Mark Haddon offers us. The collapse of a dock in a tourist town is a kind of literary matryoshka that contains smaller and more shocking stories, and leaves the reader dazzled to lead it, in a variation of records that borders on virtuosity, by other hypnotic stories, many of them interspersed with the emotions emanating from difficult family relationships. Two children with a loaded pistol, travelers looking for adventures in the Amazon or an abandoned princess are some of the premises of these stories that, as in all the author's work, tells us about something deeper such as loneliness and difficulties for connect socially The sinking of the pier is a vindication of the imagination and of a literature that says much more than it counts.