Audio Book Description:
Teresa is a beautiful young girl from the village who is supposed to marry a suitable man from the same community but whowants to see the world. Vasco isa cafe owner who is losing business to the new internet cafe down the road. The unseemly, dysfunctional, but strangely riveting Pottses are a familyof ex-patriots, trying to cobble a life together, at odds with one another untilthey run into trouble on the outside. Wealso meet several English tourists: ayoung couple engaged to be married and confronting each other`s weaknesses and idiosyncrasies for the first time and an older woman imagining a new life,fantasizing about never returning home.