by Nicholas Shakespeare · Anaya & Mario Muchnik · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788479790660
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«La visión de Elena Silves» is the novel by Nicholas Shakespeare, published by Anaya & Mario Muchnik in paperback (285 pages, in Spanish).
In a Peru ravaged by guerrilla warfare, the love between Elena, a devout Portuguese Catholic, and Gabriel, a student and grandson of a Chinese peasant and Marxist, spans more than twenty years. Between jungle and mountain, it survives ideological differences and becomes a hope amid desolation.
Original title: The Vision of Elena Silves (1989); translated from English by Nora Muchnik. Winner of the Somerset Maugham and Betty Trask awards (1990).
Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare FRSL is a British novelist, biographer, broadcaster, and journalist. He was described by the Wall Street Journal as "one of the best English novelists of our time". He has written biographies of Bruce Chatwin, Ian Fleming, and his aunt in Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France. Shakespeare is also known for his charity work.
