The Song of Beauty

Kino and his wife Juana are two characters faced with everyone’s dilemmas, except on a grand scale. They enter the stage of this book on the collapse of their dreams, most cuttingly felt in the death of their son. The jealousy and hope of their prior journey took them to both the heights and depths of human experience. Now at the worst point, their lives continue. Here even rebuilding has cut them down, for it was that very act, that hope to raise themselves up, that has failed. Terrors and...