The Mad Patagonian Part Three: An Elegy for a Dream Once Dreamt (The Mad Patagonian series) - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

The novel as a whole follows the fortunes of Escolástica and Isabel Vda De Miranda, two clairvoyant sisters from Logroño, Spain, and their descendants. The younger sister, Escolástica, emigrates from Spain to Cuba with her uncle, Andres Escoraz, in 1899 in search of the paradise of new beginnings. Her descendants eventually make their way from Santiago, Cuba to Havana to Miami. The older sister, Isabel, marries into a family from Vera de Bidasoa, Spain and moves to the mountains and later fights against the Fascists. Her grandchildren immigrate to the United States in 1939 and also eventually settle in Miami. Neither branch of the family knows of the other.

Part Three also tells three stories. The first is about a Jesuit priest named Father Anton Kreutner, whose life intersects and impacts the life of Emilio Calzada (Isadora’s brother). The question this first story focuses on is existential: why does Father Anton Kreutner suddenly quit the priesthood at the age of eighty. The second story focuses on the quest of Tommie Rodriguez to find out what happened to Travis and Mick and leads to Little Havana, Miami and The Patagonian Café. The third story is about what happened to Travis.

Part Three also contains an Afterword by the author and a section titled The Lost Poets of World War One, which was written as a companion piece to The Mad Patagonian and features the biographies of three of the fictitious poets that grace the pages of The Mad Patagonian as well as samples of poetry from each of the poets.

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