Mario Vargas Llosa, The Way to Paradise

I really was not a fan of this book, it dramatises the life of Paul Gauguin and his grandmother, Flora Tristan. They both had interesting lives, but the interweaving of the stories and the way it is written means the book is often confusing and convoluted or over-detailed. Added to the fact that often neither Gauguin nor Tristan are people I could empathise with, the novel is tedious.