Great West Island

Author: (French) Bouvau
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: The theme of this book is love, but what shocks people is not the love between the male and female protagonists, but rather the opposite of love—betrayal and revenge. The female protagonist, Antinea, is beautiful, noble, and unparalleled. No man who meets her is immune to her love. To avenge all the women abandoned by their lovers, she abandons all the men who fall in love with her, and already 53 young men have become sacrifices to love. The theme of this book is love, but what shocks people is not the love between the male and female protagonists, but rather the opposite of love—betrayal and revenge. The female protagonist, Antinea, is beautiful, noble, and unparalleled. No man who meets her is immune to her love. To avenge all the women abandoned by their lovers, she abandons all the men who fall in love with her, and already 53 young men have become sacrifices to love. The male protagonist, Monsieur de Morange, along with his companion Lieutenant de Saint-Avé, is driven by academic curiosity to explore the Great West Island, where he inadvertently falls into Antinea's trap. On that mysterious land, he chooses death, chooses the 54th niche, and lies there like others—in eternal rest.