In this lyrical, richly textured novel, Julius, an eleven year old boy born to the social elite in Peru, tells us the story of his life. Through keen observations, by turns skeptical and cynical, Julius paints a world where servants and their masters, fathers and sons, teachers and students interact without ever truly knowing each other. This postmodern novel incisively charts the decline of an influential, centuries-old aristocratic family faced with the invasion of foreign capital in the 1950s.
Spanish Description: Esta ha sido elegida la mejor novela peruana de todos los tiempos. Es el retrato de un sector feliz y despreocupado de la oligarquia limena. Julius es un nino inteligente y bien tratado por la fortuna, que resulta pretexto, punto de continua confluencia de un sistema de costumbres y de ideas que configuran una situacion tenida de buen gusto, amenazada por la fragilidad y subrayada por una injusticia terrible.
Description:
In this lyrical, richly textured novel, Julius, an eleven year old boy born to the social elite in Peru, tells us the story of his life. Through keen observations, by turns skeptical and cynical, Julius paints a world where servants and their masters, fathers and sons, teachers and students interact without ever truly knowing each other. This postmodern novel incisively charts the decline of an influential, centuries-old aristocratic family faced with the invasion of foreign capital in the 1950s.
Spanish Description: Esta ha sido elegida la mejor novela peruana de todos los tiempos. Es el retrato de un sector feliz y despreocupado de la oligarquia limena. Julius es un nino inteligente y bien tratado por la fortuna, que resulta pretexto, punto de continua confluencia de un sistema de costumbres y de ideas que configuran una situacion tenida de buen gusto, amenazada por la fragilidad y subrayada por una injusticia terrible.
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