#paperback 272 Pages.- A sinuous, strange and utterly beguiling novel of sexual obsession. Set in Latin America in the throes of revolution, three boyhood friends, now middle-aged gather at the home of Dr. Pacheco for a semi-annual dinner party, and discover long-harboured secrets of the house and Pacheco's obsessive imprisonment of the beautiful and enigmatic Senora Puccini, and about their own compulsions.