A Visit to Don Otavio
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Product Information
| ISBN | 9780907871873 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sybille Bedford |
| Publisher | Eland Publishing Ltd |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.334 |
| Publishing Date | 31/07/2002 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €18.77 |
| Tax | €1.13 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €19.90 |
| Availability | 3 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
Mexico, through the eyes of Sybille Bedford is a country of passion and paradox: arid desert and shrieking jungle, harsh sun and deep shadow, violence and sentimentality. In her frank descriptions of the horrors of travel - through bug-infested jungle, trapped in a broiling stationary train, or in a bus with a dead fish slapping against her face - she gains our trust. But it is the charmed world of Don Otavio which steals our imagination. He is, she says, "one of the kindest men I ever met". She stays in his crumbling ancestral mansion, living a life of provincial ease and observing with glee the intense life of a Mexican neighbourhood.