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The Vision Of Elena Silves Nicholas Shakespeare

The Vision Of Elena Silves By Nicholas Shakespeare

The Vision Of Elena Silves by Nicholas Shakespeare


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Summary

In the Amazon city of Belen, in the heart of the Peruvian jungle, three old men sit on a bench. One day a woman hurries past their bench whom all have reason to remember - Elena Silves, the girl with eyes as blue as the sky who once saw a vision and has been incarcerated by the Church authorities in a convent high in the Andes ever since.

The Vision Of Elena Silves Summary

The Vision Of Elena Silves by Nicholas Shakespeare

In the Amazon city of Belen, in the heart of the Peruvian jungle, three old men sit on a bench. They sit in the square every day under the hot sun, remembering the women they loved and the world when it was a better place. One day a woman hurries past their bench whom all have reason to remember - Elena Silves, the girl with eyes as blue as the sky who once saw a vision and has been incarcerated by the Church authorities in a convent high in the Andes ever since. But the old men remember something else. They remember that Elena had been in love at the time with Gabriel, a student revolutionary who became the most wanted man in Belen.

The Vision Of Elena Silves Reviews

Written with precision, clarity and rare beauty... Alongside Salman Rushdie and the late Bruce Chatwin, Shakespeare now joins the ranks of the New Exotics school -- Robert Carver * New Statesman *
A story of love and insurrection brilliantly told... A remarkable debut... one of the best books about the continent written by an outsider * Sunday Times *
An Englishman's novel of magic realism, flavoured with the more traditional English spices such as thriller and tourchsong, and a touch of Anglo-Saxon irony... A fine literary novel, combining several traditions and genres of fiction * The Times *
A denouement that is unexpected, shocking and brilliantly conceived... I closed the novel with both satisfaction and regret * Literary Review *
The Vision of Elena Silves is a terrific novel -- John Sutherland * London Review of Books *

About Nicholas Shakespeare

Nicholas Shakespeare was born in 1957. The son of a diplomat, much of his youth was spent in the Far East and South America. His novels have been translated into twenty languages. They include Snowleg and The Dancer Upstairs, which was chosen by the American Libraries Association in 1997 as the year's best novel, and in 2001 was made into a film of the same name by John Malkovich. His most recent novel are Secrets of the Sea and Inheritance. He is married with two small boys and currently lives in Oxford.

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GOR003296086
9780099466178
0099466171
The Vision Of Elena Silves by Nicholas Shakespeare
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
20041202
272
N/A
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