num_pages: 284
description: Pedro returns to Bolivia from the United States to escape the amorous attentions of his former student, Ashley, and to investigate the life of his father, a leftist leader who was killed by the Bolivian government.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: La materia del deseo
titlecomplete: La materia del deseo
genres: Fiction, Bolivia, Novels, Latin American
ratings_count: 130
publisher: Alfaguara