The Vision Of Elena SilvesIn 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. |
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The vision of Elena Silves: a novel
User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis first novel has all the basic ingredients of a rough-and-tumble South American tale--a crooked bishop, a greedy mayor, sun-beaten town squares, suffocating jungles, and terrorists bubbling up ... Read full review