We have cruised to The Canary Islands and toured Tenerife, which is a very mountainous and picturesque. We had thought there would be a lot of little yellow birds but learned that the islands are named because of some obscure reference to canine dogs.
This novel imagines a cab driver / piano tuner, who is an Danish immigrant, enmeshed in the corrupt politics, businesses, administration, infant abuse and tourist interests of the island.