Nicholas Shakespeare was born in The son of a diplomat, much of his youth was spent in the Far East and South America. His books have been translated into twenty-two languages. They include The Vision of Elena Silves (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), Snowleg, The Dancer Upstairs, Inheritance, Priscilla and Six Minutes in May/5(3). The eponymous Elena Silves, born in in the city of Belen ("Peru's tropical gateway city and door to the mysterious Amazon") has a vision of the Virgin Mary at age 17 while she is in hiding with Gabriel Rondon Lung--a half-Chinese, half-Portuguese Marxist/5(3). The Vision of Elena Silves, (Somerset Maugham Award, Betty Trask Award) In the Amazon city of Belén, in the heart of the Peruvian jungle, three old men sit on a bench. They sit in the square every day under the hot sun, remembering the women they loved and the world when it was a better place. One day a woman hurries past their bench whom all have reason to remember – Elena Silves, the girl with .
Three old men sit in the square every day under the hot sun, remembering the women they loved and the world when it was a better place. One day a woman hurries past their bench whom all have reason to remember - Elena Silves, the girl with eyes as blue as the sky who once saw a vision and has been incarcerated by the Church authorities in a convent high in the Andes ever since. Shakespeare's time in South America is represented in two novels, The Vision of Elena Silves (, Somerset Maugham Award, Betty Trask Award) and The Dancer Upstairs (, American Library Association Award for The Best Novel of the Year). Available in: Paperback. In the Amazon city of Belen, in the heart of the Peruvian jungle, three old men sit on a bench. One day a woman hurries past their bench whom all have reason to remember - Elena Silves, the girl with eyes as blue as the sky who.
The Vision of Elena Silves. SHAKESPEARE, Nicholas. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York () ISBN ISBN Shakespeare, on the contrary, is busy proving to himself that The Vision of Elena Silves is a work of art, his masterpiece, each paragraph are poemlike and full of exotic unknown words, ignoring one of the most important facts that novels are made for readers. I had this book laying around the house for ages. Title: The Vision of Elena Silves Item Condition: used item in a good condition. Author: Nicholas Shakespeare ISBN Books will be free of page markings. Will be clean, not soiled or stained.
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