Kate Leslie, an Irish widow turning forty, walks out of a Mexico City bull-fight disgusted, yet cannot bring herself to leave the country. At a house by a lake she meets Don Ramón and the general Cipriano, who are leading a revolution to replace Christianity with the ancient worship of Quetzalcoatl, and she must decide how far to give herself to it.
Lawrence’s most ambitious and controversial novel of the 1920s, rich in Mexican landscape and troubling in its politics. Download the free EPUB.