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The Way to Paradise

English · Paperback

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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

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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

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