For the first time in Russian - a grandiose family saga (“a triumph of historical reconstruction and unbridled romance,” as critics put it) from the author of the world bestseller “The 19th Wife,” which has sold almost a million copies. The epic tale centers on the beautiful Linda Stemp, maker of the best lobster traps on the entire California coast, and the three men in whose lives she will play a fatal role: her jealous brother Edmund; Captain Willis Poore, war hero and orange rancher; and a mysterious handyman named Bruder, whom Linda's father brought home from the war. Their destinies, intersecting, form a picturesque panorama permeated with light nostalgia, in which there is a place for love, betrayal, and fatal secrets. As New York magazine wrote, “Ebershoff’s heroes not only rise from the pages as if alive, but appear as giants of truly mythical proportions.”