![]() ![]() When she gives birth to a daughter, Clara, Doña María channels all her energy and insecurities into loving her daughter, but Clara grows up to be repulsed and hostile to her mother, and eventually marries a Spanish count in order to get away from her. Doña María is born shy and unattractive daughter of a rich Limean merchant she frequently quarrels with her mother and eventually marries a poor nobleman solely in order to leave home. One of the bridge collapse’s victims is Doña María, the Marquesa de Montemayor. The novel’s narrator muses that even though he believes himself better informed than Brother Juniper, he will also fall prey to the same problems. However, “for all his diligence” Brother Juniper is never able to understand the “central passions” that motivated each of his subjects. In order to do so, he investigates the lives of all the victims, recording even the most trivial facts in an enormous book, which he hopes will eventually help him understand why God allowed the bridge collapse to happen. ![]() Especially interested is a friar named Brother Juniper, who witnesses the bridge collapse and afterwards becomes obsessed with proving that the disaster was a justified act of God. ![]() This unprecedented evet becomes a communal touchstone for the Limean population, which can’t fathom why such a catastrophe would occur. On July 20, 1714, an important bridge outside Lima, Peru, collapses without warning, plunging five travelers to their instant deaths. ![]()
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