Pages 291- 324 Summary

New Section, P. 291- The rich woman, Donna has a party for a distinguished English visitor named James Chelmsford. English speakers are brought to the party including Rosa and Bernard. A journalist there talks about how there is a break between the Western Leftists and the Soviet Union over the brutality revealed in Solzhenitsyn's book about the Gulag. There is a condemnation of the Soviets, but all political alternatives are also questioned and belittled. New Section, P. 300- Rosa thinks of the young Japanese woman Tatsu dancing. She thinks of walking in the village and meeting one of the lesbian women or another woman who will ask Rosa for help. Rosa cannot get this woman to tell her what the problem is. Rosa and the woman enter a house and suddenly the woman is calm and gossiping about trivia. Rosa goes...