The Pearl Condition:Very Good and the UK’s Bridport Prize

and the UK’s Bridport Prize for Poetry

” The contributors have drawn from personal encounters

surrounded by gently decaying old ladies and proliferating cats

In the city of Johannesburg a father seeks his delinquent son

Number of Pages: 626

The Pearl Condition:Very Good and the UK’s Bridport PrizeKino is a desperately poor Mexican pearl diver. But when he finds 'The Pearl of the World' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses in his neighbors and himself. A haunting and timeless tale of wealth and the evil it can bring.