The Way to Paradise

A rare study of passion, ambition and the determined pursuit of greatness in the face of illness, death and conservative forces, The Way to Paradise shows a contemporary master at the peak of his powers. 'In Mario Vargas Llosa's latest novel there are two stories - that of Paul Gaugin, the Post-Impressionist painter, and that of Paul Gaugin's grandmother, Flora Tristan . . . what makes this novel so illuminating is the continuity between their parallel lives . . . Gaugin and Flora may have thought they were masters of their own destiny, but this novel powerfully suggests that even that may have been an illusion - like paradise itself.' Literary Review ' The Way to Paradise weaves an extraordinary rich double fantasia around Gaugin's life, strenuously explores qualities in the works, and sets moral issues in a far wilder, more real historical world . . . Riveting stuff, beautifully written, wild, exact, and visually stunning.' Independent

Product details

• Authors: Vargas Llosa, Mario Vargas Llosa
• Assisted by: Wimmer Natasha (Translation)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.05.2004
• EAN: 9780571220397
• ISBN: 978-0-571-22039-7
• No. of pages: 417
• Dimensions: 113 mm x 178 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Faber & Faber Paperbacks; Faber & Faber Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Peruanische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary