# The Vision Of Elena Silves

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- Authors: [Nicholas Shakespeare](https://www.bookquiver.com/nicholas-shakespeare)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9958-992-1
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2013-09-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the Amazon city of Belén, in the heart of the Peruvian jungle, three old men sit on a bench. They sit in the square every day under the hot sun, remembering the women they loved and the world when it was a better place. One day a woman hurries past their bench whom all have reason to remember - Elena Silves, the girl with eyes as blue as the sky who once saw a vision and has been incarcerated by the Church authorities in a convent high in the Andes ever since. But the old men remember something else. They remember that Elena had been in love at the time with Gabriel, a student revolutionary who became the most wanted man in Belén.