The Way to Paradise: A NovelA New York Times Notable Book |
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... girl. But they amused Koké, and he liked to stroke them. Only when he asked her to pose did they quarrel. It bored Teha'amana to stay still in a single position for a long time, and sometimes she would simply walk away with a scowl of ...
... girl was in the same position, with the same expression on her face, petrified with fear. “It's me, it's me—Koké,” he said soothingly, going to her. “Don't be afraid, Teha'amana.” She broke into tears, sobbing hysterically, and in her ...
... girl you held in your arms: tupapau, tupapau. He felt his cock stiffen. He was trembling with excitement. Noticing, the girl stretched out on the mattress with that cadenced, slightly feline slowness of the native women that so seduced ...
... girl could never reproduce what he wanted to capture in the painting: that religious terror from the remotest past that made her see the demon, that fear so powerful it materialized a tupapau. Now she was laughing, or fighting to hold ...
... girl would be obscene without the fear in her eyes and the incipient downturn of her mouth. But fear didn't diminish her beauty. It augmented it, tightening her buttocks in such an insinuating way, making them an altar of human flesh on ...
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 | |