The Road North by Isabel Allende..
"It took Claveles Picero and her grandfather Jesús Dionisio Picero thirty-eight days to walk the seventy kilometers between their village and the capital.
On foot they had traveled through lowlands where the vegetation simmered in an eternal broth of mud and sweat, climbed and descended hills past motionless iguanas and drooping palm trees, crossed coffee plantations while avoiding foremen, lizards, and snakes, and made their way beneath tobacco leaves among phosphorescent mosquitos and sidereal butterflies..."
Part of the collection "The Stories of Eva Luna", first published in Spanish in 1989 and in English in 1991.
نحن نعمل على تصفية المحتوى من أجل
توفير الكتب بشكل أكثر قانونية ودقة لذلك هذا الكتاب غير متوفر حاليا حفاظا على حقوق
المؤلف ودار النشر.
