The Rainforest (Latin American Women Writers)

By Alicia Steimberg and Alicia Steimberg

Book Overview

For middle-aged Cecilia, the rainforest represents both solace and tenuously controlled danger, as she discovers when she follows the same path each day from her hotel at a Brazilian spa into the surrounding jungle. Although her daily forays are designed to help leave her painful past behind, Cecilia's thoughts return to her deceased husband, her drug-addicted son, and her own place in the world. These thoughts are her only company until the present intrudes once more in the unlikely form of a fellow patient at the spa, a North American man who might represent a second chance. In The Rainforest , the award-winning novelist Alicia Steimberg offers the reader new definitions of happiness and mature love--or perhaps simply the reassurance that in life, nothing is ever quite as terrible as one fears or quite as glorious as one remembers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803293291
• ISBN13: 9780803293298
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.5"