Iphigenia: (The Diary of a Young Lady Who Wrote Because She Was Bored) - Paperbackby Teresa De La Parra (Author), Bertie Acker (Translator) Winner, Harvey L. Johnson Award, Southwest Council on Latin American Studies, 1994 " I didn't want to tell you the truth for anything in the world, because it seemed very humiliating to me" The truth is that Iphigenia is bored and, more than bored, buried alive in her grandmother's house in Caracas, Venezuela. After the excitement of being a beautiful, unchaperoned young woman in Paris, her