Imagery

• "The full moon is silhouetted against the sea, smothering the waves with silver reflections." (34)
• "My head rested in the lap tying me to this land, lulled by everything around." (36)
• "The taste of bread was now tinged with warning..." (39)
• "The road is terrible and the poor bike snorted..." (48)
• "We'd managed to track down our consul who finally turned up at what served as an office, stone-faced..." (66)
• The big day arrived at last and two tears ploughed symbolically down Alberto's cheeks. (67)
• "...the poor animal, robbed of the bond linking him to us..." (72)
• "You cannot say that it is lacking in beauty, but it is a beauty without grace, imposing and glacial." (79)
• "When I made travel notes, hot and fresh with enthusiasm..." (86)
• " Then he swept himself away into euphoric descriptions of his various heroic deeds..." (100)
• "The violent red of the flowers..." (112)
• "...the orderlies' eyes shone proudly, as if the building was their own creation..." (122)
• "The terrible street lighting plaguing the whole of the Peruvian sierra reached its worst there..." (125)
• "Nearby, peeking through a fence, the plump forms of oranges materialized." (131)
•  "Famished, we decided to cast off the little shame that stubbornly remained." (131)