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The Way to Paradise (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312424039)
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Mario Vargas Llosa
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xWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
A New York Times Notable Book Flora Trist n, the illegitimate child of a wealthy Peruvian father and French mother, grows up in poverty and journeys to Peru to demand her inheritance. On her return in 1844, she makes her name as a champion of the downtrodden, touring the French countryside to recruit members for her Workers' Union.In 1891, Flora's grandson, struggling painter and stubborn visionary Paul Gauguin, abandons his wife and five children for life in the South Seas, where his dreams of paradise are poisoned by syphilis, the stifling forces of French colonialism, and a chronic lack of funds, though he has his pick of teenage Tahitian lovers and paints some of his greatest works. Flora died before her grandson was born, but their travels and obsessions unfold side by side in this double portrait, a rare study in passion and ambition, as well as the obstinate pursuit of greatness in the face of illness and death.
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
ISBN-10: 0312424035
ISBN-13: 9780312424039
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2004
Pages: 454
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.58w x 0.88d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 10/17/2004 pg. 26
By Mario Vargas Llosa
xMARIO VARGAS LLOSA was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010 for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat. Peru's foremost writer, he has been awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor, and the Jerusalem Prize. His many works include The Feast of the Goat, The Bad Girl, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The War of the End of the World, and The Storyteller. He lives in London.
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