A boiled-down gem of a Marías story about how Elvis (in Acapulco to film a movie) and his hard-drinking entourage abandon their interpreter in a seedy cantina full of enraged criminals after insults start to fly. When the local kingpin demands to be told what the Americans are saying, Elvis himself delivers an even more stinging parting shot – and who has to translate that?
In the spring of 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupery left his wife, Consuelo, to return to the war in Europe. Soon after, he disappeared while flying a reconnaissance mission over occupied France. Neither his plane nor his body was ever found. This is Consuelo's account of their extraordinary marriage, a love story about a pilot and his wife, a man who yearned for the stars and the spirited wife who gave him the strength to fulfil his dreams. Their love affair and marriage took them through periods of betrayal and infidelity, pain and intense passion, devastating abandonment and tender poetic love. Several times in the course of their marriage they would go their separate ways, but always they would return.