Coriander

by Barbara Victor, Gratiela Mariana Zotica (Translator)

The author of Friends, Lovers, Enemies writes an intriguing novel that moves from a chaotic Brooklyn trauma center to exotic, mysterious Mexico. When surgeon Coriander Wyatt learns that her husband was on a plane that crashed on its way to Acapulco, she also learns that he is wanted for looting the assets of his now insolvent bank.

282 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1993

About the author

Barbara Victor, a former Middle East specialist for the U.S. State Department, has worked in television and radio for many years.
Currently a freelance journalist, she has interviewed such Middle Eastern leaders as Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon, Yitzhak Rabin, Colonel Muammaer Quaddafi and Abu Lyad (sic) of the PLO. She lives in Paris.
Penguin has published her novels Lovers and Enemies (later republished as Friends, Lovers, Enemies), Absence of Pain and Misplaced Lives.

Reviews

[Angela Lindsey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Likeable characters. Storyline is intriguing with romance and mystery.

[Razvan Banciu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well, this is one of the few cases in which my rating is better than the average!
If I'd have to be very frank, four stars are probably one too many, but I'd liked the style and, more than that, I'd have to respect the author and her expertise as a journalist.

Speaking about the book, you may be deceived by the first pages, as they are quite different from the rest. There will be no more sex, just a strange type of love, melted with memories and real facts and characters, most of them Argentinian.
The plot is not quite the best I've ever met, but the rhythm is alert, the characters have some deepness and the final, yet foreseeable, is an interesting one. So, you'll probably don't regret investing some hours in this one...