A Visit to Don Otavio

Mexico, through the eyes of Sybille Bedford is a country of passion and paradox: arid desert and shrieking jungle, harsh sun and deep shadow, violence and sentimentality. In her frank descriptions of the horrors of travel - through bug-infested jungle, trapped in a broiling stationary train, or in a bus with a dead fish slapping against her face - she gains our trust. But it is the charmed world of Don Otavio which steals our imagination. He is, she says, "one of the kindest men I ever met". She stays in his crumbling ancestral mansion, living a life of provincial ease and observing with glee the intense life of a Mexican neighbourhood.

• | Author: Sybille Bedford
• | Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
• | Publication Date: Jul 31, 2002
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780907871873
• | ISBN-10: 0907871879