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Maeva Tahiti
出版Independently Published, 2020-10-07
主題Fiction / Romance / GeneralFiction / Romance / Erotic
ISBN9798694579537
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=orEEzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Her grandmother teaches her to read with Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. The child's name is Alicia Domenech and this is her story. A romantic novel, in the style of a bildungsroman, spanning the period between the 60's and present times.Filled with anguish by her daughter's impending wedding, Alicia turns back the clock. A bucolic childhood at the estancia La Canela is unseasonably upturned by a sudden decision by her father. Once in Buenos Aires, under the effect of The Beatles' songs she meets Ezequiel, her first love. During the 70s, after a kidnapping threat against her family, she is sent to study in Switzerland, where she spends her adolescence in exile, among mind games and reveries. Emboldened by her knowledge of French, she goes on to weave an absurd theory about amorous kisses.She returns to the country when her parents die in an accident. Reencountering Ezequiel love once again flourishes. But his family, observing Jews, manages to curtail the young man's feelings and thwart any thought of a mixed marriage. Engulfed in her pain, a weird dream about Alice is aphoristically spun before her. Ancient Rome, bacchanalia and a single word: Aprilis.Her time as a tourist guide in French Polynesia is to transform her life. Nature and its cornucopia, exotic customs that get under her skin until she is brimming. Paul is to be her spiritual mentor. After a rite of initiation he teaches her to display love as art and ethics.In what she thought was no more than a job she is to find freedom in love. She is to share her passion for Antoine with her Tahitian vahine. She learns a third language to express her feelings, emotions, sensations.Her life unfolds in two opposing worlds. Now, many years later, she comes to understand the profound sense of the book her grandmother read to her as a child. She lives, and yet does not live, in this world. She lives, and yet does not live, in another world.The love of her life is finally to arrive, the father of her daughter, but the fruit of a forbidden relationship. She does not feel defined by her condition or by her social interests. Her ethics are free, unfettered, unconditioned, percolating through her body and her life. And she understands, not without pain, that sometimes the highest expression of love is in renouncement.