The Way to Paradise

“It’s in [Gauguin’s] part of the story, so full of the contradictions of this yearning, difficult man, that Vargas Llosa makes the book come alive.” — Time A New York Times Notable Book Flora Tristán, the illegitimate child of a wealthy Peruvian father and French mother, grows up in poverty and journeys to Peru to demand her inheritance. On her return in 1844, she makes her name as a champion of the downtrodden, touring the French countryside to recruit members for her Workers’ Union. In 1891, F