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Picador
September 2004
On Sale: September 1, 2004
464 pages
ISBN: 0312424035
EAN: 9780312424039
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Fiction Family Life | Historical
Flora Tristán, the illegitimate child of a wealthy Peruvian
father and French mother, grows up in poverty and journeys
to Peru to demand her inheritance. On her return in 1844,
she makes her name as a champion of the downtrodden, touring
the French countryside to recruit members for her Workers'
Union.
In 1891, Flora's grandson, struggling painter and stubborn
visionary Paul Gauguin, abandons his wife and five children
for life in the South Seas, where his dreams of paradise are
poisoned by syphilis, the stifling forces of French
colonialism, and a chronic lack of funds, though he has his
pick of teenage Tahitian lovers and paints some of his
greatest works. Flora died before her grandson was born, but their travels
and obsessions unfold side by side in this double portrait,
a rare study in passion and ambition, as well as the
obstinate pursuit of greatness in the face of illness and death.
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