There is no point trying to understand why people fall in love. My contact with Yolanda had been so snatched, yet the impact had been intense. I was forty-three years old, but I had lived only for a few days. Once you wake up like that, you don’t drop back into sleep. Not easily. Since Monday, when I had bumped into Yolanda in the Bullrich Arcade, I had hardly slept. My heart had become a vast and uncomfortable thing. It reared out of my chest, throwing back my head so I could breathe only with difficulty. As I pressed my forehead to the dark Perspex strip, I could no longer hide from myself the reason for these feelings, this behavior.
In the next few hours that remained until I saw her again, this is what I argued: I was in the saddle of a passion which could lead nowhere. I sifted Yolanda’s character for faults, fumbled with them to that narrow bar of light. She was immature, unpredictable. She had chubby cheeks, an unquenchable appetite for cakes, ugly feet. I pictured her in revolting positions. I summoned her feet and stamped their deformed features on her face, over her eyes. There! Could I find her attractive now? I did. I did! I was in pain. I was miserable. I was ashamed. I was thrilled. The smallest detail rang with her name, from the outline of the jacaranda to the pattern of specks on the Perspex.
Leonard Durso 
Have not seen that film for years, everytime it came on tv I always made a point of watching it. Maybe I should read the book.
I am often disappointed when reading books that were made into films I admire, just as I am often disappointed in films made from books I love. But both the book and the film are worth spending time with in this case.
That is so good to know, because the film was just so well done.
The film was a good adaptation but the book is much richer in plot and character.
Wow.
Is ur yolanda converted into jacaranda’s blue flowers?.ur post is relacted some memories-I m thinking.it is right or wrong ,dear Leonardo!!
This is an excerpt from a novel by Nicholas Shakespeare.
Oh . Bt I think dt novel will be interesting.
It is a fictionalized account of the hunt for the leader of a group of terrorists like Peru’s Shining Path.
Oh my God.