The
mystery of Tökland Island is one of the best-known novels of the Spanish
writer Joan Manuel Gisbert, which in 1980 won him the Lazarillo Award.
In the first part of the book, a millionaire is trying to find the
right person, who in the second part should help him unveil a tremendous
secret, and so he builds an underground labyrinth in the depths of the
fictional Tökland Island, offering a grand prize to the person who will manage
to solve all the problems posed by the successive rooms of the maze.
At first, all who try to solve the challenge posed by the maze fail
ignominiously. At last, the protagonist of the novel decides to attempt the
adventure, but as he does not trust himself to solve every problem alone, he
prepares a team of collaborators, specialists in various fields, who will
contact him from a ship that will remain close to the island, and while he goes
through the labyrinth will help him solve the problems he finds there.
