Bookverdict.com

Award-winning Venturini (1921–2015) offers a gothic story about Chela, a wealthy and intellectually curious girl growing up through an unruly and unloving childhood on a magnificent Argentinian estate in the 1920s. The years pass, and an adult Chela travels across South America and Europe and back again, having affairs with older men, befriending Pablo Neruda, and falling in with spell-casting aristocrats, but the real journey takes place within, as she lives in a world of the mind, alwa...Log In or Sign Up to Read More