Name: A Visit to don Otavio (in English)
Price: 22.93 USD
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Author: Sybille Bedford
ISBN: 9780907871873

portada A Visit to don Otavio (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Eland Publishing Ltd

Author

Sybille Bedford

Synopsis "A Visit to don Otavio (in English)"

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.