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By the light of my father's smile : a story of requited love, crossing over, and the sexual healing of the soul

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'All your life you have the necessary illusion that you know all there is to know about heartbreak.

I hate to the one to tell you about the heartbreak you will experience after you die...' A family goes to the remote sierras of Mexico - the writer-to--be Susannah; her sister Magdalena; their father and mother.

There, amid indigenous people called the Mundo, they begin an encounter that will change them more than they ever could have dreamed.

This is a deeply sensual novel that explores the richness of female sexuality as a celebration of life, affirming the belief 'that it is the triumphant heart, not the conquered heart, that forgives. And that love is both timeless and beyond'.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
0753819511 / 9780753819517
Paperback / softback
813.54
17/02/2005
United Kingdom
English
Contemporary classics
224 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Women's, 1998.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple which has sold over 1 million copies 'An exuberant mixture of magic realism and political conviction' Times Literary Supplement 'You can't help but enjoy the verve, thrust and energy that made her famous' Julie Myerson, Mail on Sunday 'Blends the sexual and the spiritual in an exploration of women's identity' Sunday Times 'Sex, beauty, life and death - all the ingredients for a delicious read' New Woman
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple which has sold over 1 million copies 'An exuberant mixture of magic realism and political conviction' Times Literary Supplement 'You can't help but enjoy the verve, thrust and energy that made her famous' Julie Myerson, Mail on Sunday 'Blends the sexual and the spiritual in an exploration of women's identity' Sunday Times 'Sex, beauty, life and death - all the ingredients for a delicious read' New Woman FA Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)