All Green Shall Perish (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)

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Ágata Cruz (AH-gah-tah krews), the protagonist, a once strikingly beautiful, fair-skinned, dark-haired woman, grown pallid and harder-featured from the frustration of her barren fifteen years of married life on unproductive farms in southern Argentina. She was reared in a similarly drab setting by her widowed father, developed a need to escape, and for that purpose accepted the marriage proposal of Nicanor, whom she did not love. Life with Nicanor is even less sociable than it was with her father, stifling her inner passion. When she is thirty-five years...

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