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Filhos de Torremolinos by James A. Michener
4.0
Loved this book as a teenager. Reread it 30 years later. It's definitely dated but still has some great passages and insights.
"...I knew that the future work of society - the factories, the hospitals, the art museums, the city councils - would be accomplished by those who were back home learning and working in the way most people have done throughout history." ... "But then I had the nagging suspicion that the spiritual leadership of the society - whose physical continuance was assured by the standard students who stayed on the job - would probably be provided by those more adventurous ones who had picked up a vital part of their education in such unlikely dormitories as the Casino Royale in Marrakech or the pads of Greenwich Village."
"...I knew that the future work of society - the factories, the hospitals, the art museums, the city councils - would be accomplished by those who were back home learning and working in the way most people have done throughout history." ... "But then I had the nagging suspicion that the spiritual leadership of the society - whose physical continuance was assured by the standard students who stayed on the job - would probably be provided by those more adventurous ones who had picked up a vital part of their education in such unlikely dormitories as the Casino Royale in Marrakech or the pads of Greenwich Village."