In the Amazon city of Belén, 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 Belén.
ISBN: | 9780099589921 |
Publication date: | 2nd September 2013 |
Author: | Nicholas Shakespeare |
Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Vintage Publishing |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 272 pages |
Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |