Isle of Passion (38 page)

“A tragic and vivid love story.”

—
Kirkus Reviews

“It’s hard not to get caught up in Restrepo’s sexy, whirlwind narrative, which also reveals much about the effects of the global economy and Latin American politics on one small corner of Colombia.”

—
Publishers Weekly

“Restrepo weaves an intriguing story. . . . A bestselling novelist in her homeland,
The Dark Bride
is a fine introduction to U.S. readers who will undoubtedly compare her to Chile’s Isabel Allende and her own country’s master journalist-turned-novelist Gabriel García Márquez.”

—
Miami Herald

The Dark Bride

The Angel of Galilea

Leopard in the Sun

A Tale of the Dispossessed

Delirium

Originally published in Spanish as
La Isla de la Pasión
by Editorial Norma, Colombia, 1999.

A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2005 by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

I
SLE OF PASSION
. Copyright © 2005 by Laura Restrepo. Translation copyright © 2005 by Dolores M. Koch. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

First Harper Perennial edition published 2006.

The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:

Restrepo, Laura. [La Isla de la pasión. English] Isle of passion : a novel / Laura Restrepo ; translated by Dolores M. Koch.—1st ed.

p.   cm.

ISBN-10 0-06-008898-2    ISBN-13 978-0-06-008898-9

I. Koch, Dolores. II. Title.

PQ8180.28.E7255I8513  2005

863'.64—dc22

2005045077

ISBN-10 0-06-008899-0 (pbk.)

ISBN-13 978-0-06-008899-6 (pbk.)

EPub Edition August 2013 ISBN 9780062312631

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*
Actually, Lieutenant Arnaud was not promoted to captain until August 26, 1913
(Author’s note)
.

*
As in Adela Fernández’s
El Indio Fernández
, Panorama Editorial, 3rd ed., Mexico, 1986.

*
In: María Teresa Arnaud Guzmán,
La tragedia de Clipperton
, Editorial Arguz, Mexico, 1982. See also Charlotte K. Perril,
Forgotten Island
, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Washington, 1937, vol. 63, no. 42, pp. 796-805.

*
Francisco Urquizo,
El capitán Arnaud
. Editorial del Río, Mexico, 1954.

*
Jorge lbargüengoitia.
Dos crímenes
(Two murders). J. Mortiz, Mexico, 1979.