The Way to Paradise: A NovelA New York Times Notable Book |
From inside the book
... the authorities seized the Vaugirard house, claiming that your, parents' marriage, performed in Bilbao by a French expatriate priest, wasn't valid, and that Mariano Tristán, Spanish citizen from Peru, belonged to a country with.
... French travelers in Peru; the Don Mariano who was visited by the young Simón Bolívar, future Liberator of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru. It was the Mariano Tristán of the portrait your mother kept on her night table in ...
... French turned out to be Peruvian too. And why not? Didn't everyone dream of reaching Paradise? She had taught the game to her two children, Aline and Ernest. For each town and city, she had set herself a strict schedule: meetings with ...
... French navy, one of his first friends in Papeete, told him that his long hair and little Buffalo Bill cowboy hat made the Maori think he was a mahu, or a man-woman. He arrived full of expectation. Breathing the warm air of Papeete ...
... French and was carrying all her belongings on her shoulder. He offered to sit her on the horse's rump, but the girl refused, as if he had proposed some sacrilege. From that day on, she called him Koké. The name spread rapidly, and soon.
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 | |