The Vision Of Elena Silves

by Nicholas Shakespeare
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'Shakespeare must be praised for his energy, his always lucid presentation' IAN MORRISON, Independent on Sunday

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In an Amazonian city, three old men sit on a bench every day remembering the women they have loved. One day a woman hurries past their bench whom all have reason to remember: Elena Colina Silves, the girl with eyes as blue as the sky who saw a vision and was incarcerated by the church authorities

Editorial Reviews

"'Written with precision, clarity and rare beauty-Alongside Salman Rushdie and the late Bruce Chatwin, Shakespeare now joins the ranks of the New Exotics school'" - Robert Carver, New Statesman

"A story of love and insurrection brilliantly told-a remarkable debut-one of the best books about the continent written by an outsider" - Sunday Times

"An Englishman's novel of magic realism, flavoured with the more traditional English spices such as thriller and tourchsong, and a touch of Anglo-Saxon irony-a fine literary novel, combining several traditions and genres of fiction" - The Times

"A novel of action in the best tradition of Conrad and Greene-Love, violence, revolution and death-a d-nouement that is unexpected, shocking and brilliantly conceived-I closed the novel with both satisfaction and regret" - Literary Review

"'The Vision of Elena Silves is a terrific novel'" - John Sutherland, London Review of Books

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