An impromptu trip to Mexico begins at Grand Central Station as
Bedford, accompanied by her friend Esther Murphy Arthur and a large
hamper of chicken, cherries and tomatoes, boards a train, uncertain
of a place to stay at journey's end. Once in Mexico, she and Esther
attempt to avoid the expatriates and set out to find lunch, a drink
and someone to talk to. The final goal is Don Otavio's mansion but
on route are myriad small hotel rooms, dusty bus journeys,
rendezvous missed and made. A modern classic of travel writing.
(Kirkus UK)
Mexico, through the eyes of Sybille Bedford is a country of passion
and paradox: arid desert and shrieking jungle, harsh sun and deep
shadow, violence and sentimentality. In her frank descriptions of
the horrors of travel - through bug-infested jungle, trapped in a
broiling stationary train, or in a bus with a dead fish slapping
against her face - she gains our trust. But it is the charmed world
of Don Otavio which steals our imagination. He is, she says, "one
of the kindest men I ever met". She stays in his crumbling
ancestral mansion, living a life of provincial ease and observing
with glee the intense life of a Mexican neighbourhood.
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