Book description
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At the turn of the century Thophile and Suzanne Valence sail into the
Mexican copper-mining town of Santa Sofa. Tho has travelled here to
build a metal church designed by his mentor, the great engineer
Gustave Eiffel. His wife Suzanne, wayward and graced with the gift of
clairvoyance is deeply in love and has insisted on accompanying him.
But the magical landscape inspires no answering passion in Tho. In her
loneliness she turns to the American gold prospector Wilson Pharaoh,
and soon he, like the town and its inhabitants, falls under her spell,
an enchantment as seductive as Suzanne herself. <
'A drama of thwarted passions, the conflict between
masculine reason and female intuition, Enlightenment rationality and
native superstition ... Thoroughly enjoyable' Guardian 'A haunting
atmosphere, skilfully described ... Surreal and evanescent' New York
Times Book Review 'Thomson has an astonishing eye for detail,
coupled with a flair for plots that are both neat and profound'
Times Literary Supplement 'Extraordinary ... Human passions in all
their grandeur and frailty are explored under a hot Mexican sky ...
Thomson writes with an intensity that mirrors the emotions - all
strongly felt - of his unusual cast of characters' Daily Mail
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At the turn of the century Thophile and Suzanne Valence sail into the
Mexican copper-mining town of Santa Sofa. Tho has travelled here to
build a metal church designed by his mentor, the great engineer
Gustave Eiffel. His wife Suzanne, wayward and graced with the gift of
clairvoyance is deeply in love and has insisted on accompanying him.
But the magical landscape inspires no answering passion in Tho. In her
loneliness she turns to the American gold prospector Wilson Pharaoh,
and soon he, like the town and its inhabitants, falls under her spell,
an enchantment as seductive as Suzanne herself. <
