A Visit to Don Otavio
| Author | : Sybille Bedford |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2002-07-01 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0907871879 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780907871873 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (873 Downloads) |
Download or read book A Visit to Don Otavio written by Sybille Bedford and published by . This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
