New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in the years from 1844 to 1903 this double portrait dramatizes the "lives of two bold, independent adventurers - the painter, Paul Gaugin and his grandmother Flora Tristan, a trail-blazing women's suffragist. " A book which "pushes the boundaries of the traditional historic novel [in] a book of harrowing power and lasting resonance" (NY Times) Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. 373 pp. ISBN: 0-374228035.