Dona Ines vs. Oblivion
Subtitle: A Novel
Contributors: Gregory Rabassa (Translator)
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: September 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780802137265
Subjects: Historical - General; Fiction - General; Fiction; Literary; Fiction / Literary
First sentence: My life has been a passage through slow mornings, long days that time ran through sluggishly as I supervised the work of the slave women, watching them sweep the flagstones in the courtyard, polish the floor tiles and the glazed wall mosaics I'd had brought from Andalusia, gather the fallen leaves from the lemon tree, and water the guava tree in the yard; embroidering a point or two on a mantle or taking a turn through the kitchen to taste the soup and see that everything was as it should be before Alejandro's arrival and asking him during lunch what had been discussed at the council, what the price for cacao was and whether the ship carrying it had sunk.