“In the city they talk about one huge pearl - how it was found and how it was lost again. They tell about the pearl diver Kino, and his wife Juana, and their child Coyotito. This story was passed down from mouth to mouth so often that it became ingrained in people's minds. And as in all stories told and retold many times and sunk into the human heart, there is only good and bad, only good and evil, only black and white and no halftones. If this is a parable, perhaps everyone will understand it in their own way and everyone will see their own life in it. Be that as it may, they say in the city that...”