The Way to Paradise: A NovelA New York Times Notable Book |
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... sometimes pinched you. Years of scarcity, fear, hunger, sadness, especially when your mother fell into stunned silence, unable to accept such misfortune after having lived like a queen with her husband—her legitimate husband before God ...
... sometimes offered to give you your bottle; the man who spent hours in his study reading chronicles of French travelers in Peru; the Don Mariano who was visited by the young Simón Bolívar, future Liberator of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador ...
... Sometimes it was tempting to believe that Saint-Simon was right, Florita: the people were incapable of saving themselves; only an elite could manage it. They had even been infected with bourgeois prejudices: it was hard for them to ...
... crave a woman. His Mataiea neighbors, almost all Maori, with whom he was friendly and whom he sometimes invited to his hut to drink rum, advised him to search for a companion in the villages on the east coast, where there were many girls.
... sometimes she would simply walk away with a scowl of annoyance. If it hadn't been for his chronic problems with money, which never arrived in time and slipped through his fingers when it did arrive— the remittances sent by his friend ...
Contents
Mysterious Waters | |
The Shadow of Charles Fourier | |
Annah from Java | |
News from Peru | |
Portrait of Aline Gauguin | |
Nevermore | |
Arequipa | |
What Are | |
The Nun Gutiérrez | |
Wrestling with the Angel | |
The Battle of Cangallo | |
The House of Pleasure | |
Words to Change the World | |