The sky over Lima
Gómez Bárcena, Juan, 1984-2016
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Peru, 1904. Carlos and Jose are two foppish young men who spend their days hiding their upper class roots by practicing at being poets. When, bored one day, they decide on a whim to write to their poetic idol Juan Ramón Jimenez in the hope of starting a correspondence, they do so under a pseudonym, believing they are more likely to get a response if they write as a young woman. Signing the letter in the name of twenty-year-old Georgina Hubner, they receive a reply and become the talk of their literary circle. But when they convince themselves they can inspire Jimenez, through their increasingly intimate letters, to write a great love poem, the correspondence takes a more sinister, tragic turn.
Main title:
The sky over Lima / Juan Gómez Bárcena ; translated by Andrea Rosenberg.
Author:
Gómez Bárcena, Juan, 1984-, authorRosenberg, Andrea, translator
Imprint:
London : Oneworld, 2016.
Collation:
275 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781780749082 (hbk)
Dewey class:
863.7
Local class:
F
Language:
EnglishSpanish
Subject:
BRN:
1441480
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