Pablo Neruda Book

	Acknowledgements	vii
	List of Illustrations	ix
	Introduction	1
1	Secrets, shadows, wine and rain 1904-20	3
2	A bohemian in Santiago 1921-27	25
3	Asian desolation: 1927-32	51
4	Back home, new battles--and Buenos Aires 1932-34	81
5	Spanish sorrow--the turning-point 1934-37	104
6	A life-saving mission 1937-40	130
7	Mexican magic, marriage, a tragic telegram and a mordant badger 1940-43	150
8	From the rich heights of Machu Picchu down to the poverty of the driest place on Earth 1943-48	171
9	'A year of blind rats'--Neruda in hiding 1948-49	202
10	Delia and Matilde--an Eastern European juggling act 1949-52	236
11	Return the conquering hero 1952-59	284
12	The new regime 1959-66	320
13	The other Cuban crisis 1966-68	343
14	The Nobel Prize--and a last, passionate love 1968-72	359
15	The final years--and a posthumous gift 1972-73	391
	Notes	423
	Select Bibliography	451
	Copyright Acknowledgements	467
	Index	471