Far from the Madding Crowd away, but he is rescued by a rowing boat. A year later, with Troy presumed drowned, Boldwood renews his suit. Burdened with guilt over the pain she has caused him, Bathsheba reluctantly consents to marry him in six years, long enough to have Troy declared dead. Troy, however, is not dead. When he learns that Boldwood is again courting Bathsheba, he returns to Weatherbury on Christmas Eve to claim his wife. He goes to Boldwood's house, where a party is under way, and orders Bathsheba to come with him; when she shrinks back in surprise, he seizes her arm, and
Faces in the Crowd (novel) Faces in the Crowd (novel) Faces in the Crowd is a novel published by the Mexican author Valeria Luiselli in 2011 (originally under the title "Los ingrávidos"). Christina MacSweeney's English translation was published by Coffee House Press in 2014. The novel chronicles three parallel yet intersecting narrative realities. The first narrative is set in Mexico City and follows a young mother writing a memoir of her bohemian days working as a translator of Mexican poetry in Harlem as her marriage is falling apart. The second narrative is set in Harlem, and follows the misadventures of a young translator who creates