Cristóbal Pera

"Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Across sultry Caribbean evenings full of salsa and boleros, lotharios...

Gathers examples of the Nobel prize-winning author's work as a journalist, including early writings, articles from his periods as a foreign correspondent in Europe and in New York, and pieces written after he became a successful novelist.