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Title: The Daughter of the Doctor and the Saint
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Edward Swift
Narrator: Adriana Sananes
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-07-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:
She lives for love, poetry and revenge. Her mother is considered a living saint; her father a man of science and logic. The daughter's lifelong mission - to destroy the family that murdered her father, distorted her mother's reputation, and ruined her country - is fulfilled on the day she invites the president of the nation to lunch.

Editorial Reviews:
Southern Gothic meets South American magical realism in Edward Swift's transfixing novel The Daughter of the Doctor and the Saint. Set in an undisclosed Latin American country, the story centers on the life of rich and revered 82-year-old Josefina Esperon, who, at the outset of the novel, is searching for an heir. But Esperon's life holds a dark secret, and the quest for an heir is not all that it seems. This story is narrated with reverential warmth by Adriana Sananes, whose Spanish accent enlivens the tale with local color.

Members Reviews:
And Poets and Parrots Too
Edward Swift's The Daughter of the Doctor and the Saint is not your usual family saga. Dr. Alejandro Esperon arrived in the new world with a beautiful and insanely pious wife named Eufemia. The doctor had come to this tropical Latin American paradise to study the plants of the new world and to try to make from them cures for the ills of mankind. The beautiful Eufemia ("My wife's beauty poisons the heart. No one is safe in her presence," the doctor explained.) came in order to realize her destiny to become a saint, modeling herself on St. Teresa of Avila and wearing "her piety like a priceless necklace for all to see." She brought with her three orange trees and a monkey named Angel, and they all took up residence in a house that had once been a convent and which had 43 rooms, four balconies, and two courtyards. The doctor enriches his new country through the cultivation of his knowledge and his ever growing and developing art of healing while his wife brings a strange, rarefied and desired spirituality to the people. But before Eufemia realizes her full state of sanctity she and the doctor produce a daughter, Josefina, a smart, spirited child who, as she grows up, learns everything her father can teach her about his plants and about life. At the same time, she gradually takes over the care of her increasingly extramundane mother.
Tragedy inevitably descends upon this world of charm and color, brought by the ruling oligarchs of the country. And with the tragedy Josefina finds her own destiny: she would visit a total and complete revenge upon the oligarchs for the sufferings they had brought to her family as well as to her city and country. At the same time, Fuerte, the indigenous servant of great strength and purpose, weaves an amazing tapestry that foretells all that has and will transpire.
That is only the beginning, a hint of a story which is full of brightly painted characters (such as the amazing Fuerte, or Carlota Montejo, the greatest actress of her time and Josefina's favorite of her father's mistresses) as well as parrots and poets, and, of course, drama, death, sex and intrigue. But the method of an ordinary, realistic novel cannot contain this sort of universe. Instead Mr.