The Matter of Desire: A Novel
By (author): "Lisa Carter, Edmundo Paz Soldán"
Publish Date:
2001
ISBN0618395571
ISBN139780618395576
AsinThe Matter of Desire: A Novel
Original titleLa materia del deseo
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.