Tarzan's Tonsillitis
by Alfredo Bryce Echenique
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From the internationally acclaimed Peruvian writer—winner of the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world—a tragicomic story of improbable, inevitable love. At the center: a couple in love, in exile together and apart. He is Juan Manuel Carpio, a second-generation Peruvian of Native American origins, a middle-class singer-composer. She is Fernanda María de la Trinidad del Monte Montes, a polyglot and cultured Salvadoran. Through the mostly show more epistolary narrative set in 1960s Paris, revolutionary El Salvador, Chile, 1980s California, and London, we follow the thirty-year arc of their relationship. At once cheerful, hopeful, and informed by a serene lack of sentimentality, the narrative—rich with the delights of paradox and hyperbole—sees the couple through disastrous and traumatic marriages to other peop≤ the ups and downs of their respective careers; the inexorable effects of politics on their personal lives; their shifting passions and gradual realization that the truest bond between lovers is a tender, abiding, and respectful friendship. show lessTags
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ESTA NOVELA ES LA HISTORIA DE UN PROLONGADO DESENCUENTRO AMOROSO.
Una historia de amor en la que los dos protagonistas recorren no sólo el mundo de los sentimientos, sino el propio mundo iberoamericano. Ella vida, con una fuerza extraordinaria, los distintos avatares de la historia de Latinoamérica de los últimos 25 años. Él, un artista que tiene su centro de operaciones en París, viaja por las realidades y los mitos de América Latina. Su principal relación es epistolar. Ella ha perdido las cartas de él, pero a través de las suyas, que él conserva, cobra fuerza la idea de que en efecto ella es como Tarzan.
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Alfredo Bryce Echenique was born in 1939 in Lima, Peru. He is the author of thirteen previous works of fiction & nonfiction, including the novel "A World for Julius". He divides his time between France & Peru. (Bowker Author Biography)
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Tarzan's Tonsillitis
- Original title
- La Amigdalitis de Tarzán
- Original publication date
- 1999
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 863.64 — Literature & rhetoric Spanish Literature Spanish fiction 20th Century 1945-2000
- LCC
- PQ8498.12 .R94 .A65 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures Spanish literature Provincial, local, colonial, etc. Spanish America
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- Languages
- 6 — Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 14
- ASINs
- 4
