
On foot they had traveled through lowlands where the vegetation simmered in an eternal broth of mud and sweat, climbed and descended hills past motionless iguanas and drooping palm trees, crossed coffee plantations while avoiding foremen, lizards, and snakes, and made their way beneath tobacco leaves among phosphorescent mosquitos and sidereal butterflies..."
Part of the collection "The Stories of Eva Luna", first published in Spanish in 1989 and in English in 1991.
On foot they had traveled through lowlands where the vegetation simmered in an eternal broth of mud and sweat, climbed and descended hills past motionless iguanas and drooping palm trees, crossed coffee plantations while avoiding foremen, lizards, and snakes, and made their way beneath tobacco leaves among phosphorescent mosquitos and sidereal butterflies..."
Part of the collection "The Stories of Eva Luna", first published in Spanish in 1989 and in English in 1991.