Come Back, Carmen Miranda

Come Back, Carmen Miranda is a collection of short stories inspired by my travels from the rakish 60s up to the more sober present-day, stories that range throughout Latin America - from the resorts and mountains of Mexico and Jamaica to the Quechua-speaking Andes highlands and Brazil's Africanized city of Bahia and the beaches of Rio. And not least, to the Amazon. The characters include hippies, students, an Andean Indian gigolo, a female Episcopal priest, drug smugglers, a bush...
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Come Back, Carmen Miranda is a collection of short stories inspired by my travels from the rakish 60s up to the more sober present-day, stories that range throughout Latin America - from the resorts and mountains of Mexico and Jamaica to the Quechua-speaking Andes highlands and Brazil's Africanized city of Bahia and the beaches of Rio. And not least, to the Amazon. The characters include hippies, students, an Andean Indian gigolo, a female Episcopal priest, drug smugglers, a bush pilot, a lonely old Mexican lady, a wealthy Arab-Spanish family. The main character, though, is Latin America itself: tragic, lush, violent and romantic.