The award-winning author of Keepers of the House describes her teenage marriage to a South American aristocrat twenty years her senior, her disillusionment, and her struggle to find the strength to build a new life in the heart of the Andean wilderness. 12,500 first printing.
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She writes with extraordinary vividness and clarity - she faces reality with a courage and skill that left me not knowing which to admire more: her gift as a writer or that she had the guts to carve out a place for herself in such an unforgiving world. (INDEPENDENT)
Powerfully engrossing (OBSERVER)
Astonishing (ELLE)
A remarkable woman, her life story makes for compulsive reading. (THE TIMES)
Book Description:
Now in paperback, Lisa St. Aubin de Teran's remarkable and haunting memoir of her years on a vast sugar plantation, deep in Venezuela. 'Astonishing' - Elle
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- PublisherLittle Brown & Co
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0316816345
- ISBN 13 9780316816342
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages342
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