One character in this novel has forged stock certificates for 10,000 pesos and sold the forgeries, which leads a character named Galvez to say that he could put the owner of the title business in jail whenever he wants.
A parenthetical alternate ending to this novel imagines that its main character died of pneumonia in Rosario. A minor character in this novel, Dr. Diaz Grey, appears in a previous novel by the same author entitled A Brief Life, while this work's main character reappears in a future novel entitled Body Snatcher. One character in this novel has forged stock certificates for 10,000 pesos and sold the forgeries, which leads a character named Galvez to say that he could put the owner of the title business in jail whenever he wants. This novel's main character is assisted by the technical manager Kunz, and pursues both Maria, the pregnant wife of Galvez, and Angelica Ines, the daughter of his employer Jeremias Petrus, who had forged the aforementioned certificates. Set, like many of its author's works, in the fictional town of Santa Maria, for ten points, identify this novel in which Larsen returns to Santa Maria to become general manager of the titular maritime enterprise, probably the most famous work of Juan Carlos Onetti.
A parenthetical alternate ending to this novel imagines that its main character died of pneumonia in Rosario.
The {Shipyard} or {El astillero}