The Matter of Desire
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0618395571 / Publisher: Mariner Books, April 2004
A Bolivian-American political scientist teaching at an upstate New York university, Pedro becomes embroiled in a torid illicit affair with a beautiful graduate student, before returning to Bolivia to seek the truth about his father's mysterious past. Original.
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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.
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