Tag: foreign diplomat

  • Under the Volcano

    Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul’s self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced…

  • Protocol

    A Washington waitress saves the Emir of Ohtar’s life, launching her diplomatic career and a scandal.