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Tarzan's Tonsillitis: A Novel |  | Author: Alfredo Bryce-Echenique
Publisher: Pantheon
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2082234
Media: Hardcover
Edition: First edition.
Pages: 272
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 0375421432
Dewey Decimal Number: 863.64
EAN: 9780375421433
ASIN: 0375421432
Publication Date: December 18, 2001
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Product Description
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 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 people; 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.
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A fine piece of writing March 7, 2002
Taylor Bennett (San Francisco, CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
A clever novel in all aspects, Tarzan's Tonsilitis tells the decades long story of a couple who once were and should have been. It chronicles their lives from young adulthood to 3 decades later. It is a lovely novel, much of which is told through letters. Revealing letters that tell of each person's feelings for the other, while noting their fears and hopes. Highly recommended. It stayed with me.
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