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Book Review: 'The Way to Paradise'

By Alan Cheuse
Published November 20, 2003 at 10:00 PM MST

The Way to Paradise, by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, devotes alternating chapters to the lives of political activist Flora Tristan and her grandson, the artist Paul Gauguin. The two were idealists bound to struggle against the status quo. Alan Cheuse has a review.

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