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Paz Soldán, Edmundo (1967 -)

The matter of desire : a novel / Edmundo Paz Soldán ; translated by Lisa Carter - Boston : Houghton Mifflin , c2003 - 214 p. ; 21 cm.

The Matter of Desire is the story of Pedro, a Bolivian-American political scientist who teaches at a university in upstate New York. Having become entangled in an erotically charged romance with Ashley, a beautiful red-headed graduate student, he returns to Bolivia to seek answers to his own life by investigating the mysteries of his father's past. Trapped between two cultures, Pedro ultimately finds himself in an existential dilemma of tragic dimensions. The Matter of Desire combines elements of the political thriller and the family mystery with a torrid illicit love affair and brilliantly elucidates the complex relationship between Latin America and the United States.

ISBN: 9780618395576

LCCN: 2003067769

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Assassination----Investigation----Bolivia----Fiction
Political corruption----Fiction
College teachers----New York (State)----Fiction
Man-woman relationships----Fiction

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Bolivia----Fiction

LC Class. No.: PQ7820.P39 / M3713 2003

Dewey Class. No.: LAS FIC PAZ