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The Hacienda
Paperback
Biographies GeneralTravel WritingSouth America
ISBN13: 9781914278488
Publisher: Amaurea Press
Published: Oct 8 2026
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: English
The Hacienda is an extraordinary memoir from prize-winning novelist, Lisa St Aubin de Terán. At the age of seventeen she followed her husband, South American aristocrat and bank robber Don Jaime Terán, to his hacienda, deep int he Venezuelan Andes. Once there, Jaime virtually left his new bride to fend for herself on the vast sugar-cane and avocado plantation. The Hacienda tells the fascinating story of how, from half starving on a diet of mangoes and guavas and with two pedigree beagles, a pet vulture and one peasant girl for company, Lisa St Aubin de Terán became la Doña - managing the estate, bearing her first child, handling her increasingly unstable husband, and living for seven years amongst la gente, an illiterate, feudal people who she says have been the greatest influence on my life and work.
Over and over again before I ever went there, I heard the name 'La Hacienda'. It was a place where sugar-cane grew in unimaginable abundance and avocado pears that dwarfed all others... When I asked where it was, I was told it was in the Andes, never anywhere specific, just en los andes... when I asked how big it was, the answer was that it stretched as far as the eye could see and then further... Everything else I was told thereafter was woven in a tapestry of myth and history. Characters from the past were discussed and criticised with the same familiarity as the cousins who had just left the breakfast table. Time, it seemed, had warped on the hacienda and spun its web over all its sons and daughters. It spun its web over me. (Lisa St Aubin de Terán)
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