《天堂的另一端》是《紐約時報》年度推薦好書，以平行敘事描寫芙蘿拉・特里斯唐與她的孫子──畫家保羅・高更──兩段真實人生。芙蘿拉是秘魯富商的私生女，自小生活清苦，成年後前往秘魯尋求遺產，返法後投入工人運動，成為勞工權益的倡導者。多年後，高更離開家庭，前往南太平洋尋找創作靈感，在困苦與病痛中完成多幅知名作品。祖孫兩人雖未相識，卻都在理想與現實之間掙扎，展現對信念的堅持。本書呈現兩人不同時代下的旅程與選擇，也探討人如何在困境中尋找自我。A New York Times Notable BookFlora Tristán, the illegitimate child of a wealthy Peruvian father and French mother, grows up in poverty and journeys to Peru to demand her inheritance. On her return in 1844, she makes her name as a champion of the downtrodden, touring the French countryside to recruit members for her Workers' Union. In 1891, Flora's grandson, struggling painter and stubborn visionary Paul Gauguin, abandons his wife and five children for life in the South Seas, where his dreams of paradise are poisoned by syphilis, the stifling forces of French colonialism, and a chronic lack of funds, though he has his pick of teenage Tahitian lovers and paints some of his greatest works.Flora died before her grandson was born, but their travels and obsessions unfold side
