The Way to Paradise: A NovelA New York Times Notable Book |
From inside the book
... Peru 8 Portrait of Aline Gauguin 9 The Crossing 10 Nevermore 11 Arequipa 12 What Are We? 13 The Nun Gutiérrez 14 Wrestling with the Angel 15 The Battle of Cangallo 16 The House of Pleasure 17 Words to Change the World 18 The Late ...
... there after 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.
A Novel Mario Vargas Llosa. Tristán, Spanish citizen from Peru, belonged to a country with which France was at war. Most likely, Florita, your memory preserved only what your mother had told you of those early years. You were too little ...
... 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 the tiny apartment ...
... Peru, or seen England, or discovered pleasure in the arms of Olympia, or written the books that you've written despite your poor spelling. And, of course, you would never have become conscious of the slavery of women, nor would it have ...
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 | |