Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years.

Collection of twelve stories recounting the amazing experiences that befall Latin Americans visiting or living in Europe. An ailing Caribbean ex-president is befriended in Geneva by an ambitious ambulance driver and his headstrong wife. Margarito Duarte comes to Rome from the Colombian Aneds with a box the shape and size of a cello case in order to show the Pope its contents. A woman who wears a snake ring with emerald eyes makes living in Vienna...

"In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world--especially the native populations in the Belgian Congo and the Amazon--but when he dared to draw a parallel between the injustices he witnessed in African and American colonies and those committed by the British in Northern Ireland, he became involved...

The story of the relationship between Ricardo, a modest translator, and "the bad girl" he first loves as a teenager in Peru, but who continues to turn up in his life.

Returning to her native Dominican Republic, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral discovers that Rafael Trujillo, the depraved dictator called "the Goat," still reigns over his inner circle, which includes Urania's father, with brutality and blackmail.

"A collection of the speeches of Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated into English by Edith Grossman"--