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While still dependent on her mother, Rosalie witnesses an execution which alters her perception of the world:
...the public execution of the Bambara wild-woman who had thrust a needle into the skull of her newborn baby. They had tied her to the doorpost of one of the huts and coated her naked body with molasses. It took the manioc ants several hours to finish her off...
The lushly flowered city of Guadalajara has long been considered a prize post by American diplomats: the climate seems like eternal spring, the ambience is relaxed and the U.S. consul general's home is a monument to comfortable living. From now on, though, Foreign Service officers may be a...
The setting in which the amorous machinations take place is not as graceful in design or execution as it might be, but it is conceived grandly enough to produce a comfortably complete atmosphere. Artful painting on an interior wall and a quite remarkable tree for a garden scene are particularly...
The story is set in a fictional South American country called Montevideo, but it is based on a real incident in Uruguay, the kidnaping and killing of a U.S. AID official fictionally named Philip Michael Santore (Yves Montand). Santore is kidnaped by a group of radical leftists and accused, along...