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Mo, a young girl who can't talk, and Duke, a very curious dolphin, communicate in ways that go far beyond words. They are asked to help when an explosion opens the cavern of intelligent and technologically advanced octopus-people. The cavern is near a secret underwater garden so rich in precious metals that it attracts attention.Mo and Duke are called on to build a bridge of friendship between the underwater aliens and humans - a disastrous rise in sea-level lies in the balance.

First published in German in 1804, under the nom de plume "Bonaventura," this is a dark, twisted, and comic novel, in which the narrator and anti-hero is not Bonaventura, but a night watchman named Kreuzgang, a failed poet, actor, and puppeteer who claims to be the spawn of the devil himself.