 Here the novel ends, but in the opening paragraphs, Lamb had already informed the reader that after the events of the story he was captured by Paquita's father and thrown into prison for three years, during which time Paquita herself died of grief.Jorge Luis Borges dedicated an essay to "The Purple Land" in his book "Other Inquisitions" (1952).He compared Hudson's novel to the "Odyssey" and described it as perhaps the "best work of gaucho literature".