Publication Date: 31/07/2002 ISBN: 9780907871873 Category:

A Visit to Don Otavio

Sybille Bedford

Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
Publication Date: 31/07/2002 ISBN: 9780907871873 Category:
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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.

Publisher Review

"An absolutely first-class writer at the top of her powers" Mark Amory

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