Author: Juan Carlos Onetti
- Fiction
- Debolsillo
- ISBN: 9788466334310
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: America Reads Spanish

Without a doubt, Onetti is one of the greatest writers of Uruguayan letters. Creator of dark and oppressive settings, Onetti sets this story in Santa María, locale where his other novels take place. Larsen, the protagonist, returns after long years of exile with the idea of managing an old shipyard, but finds it to be as decrepit as everything else that surrounds him. Juan Carlos Onetti was awarded the Cervantes Prize in 1980.