Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #302882 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 450 pages

Customer Reviews

A powerful and exhilarating description of Peru's high class
Bryce brings in this novel an accurate description of the high class life in Lima in the 50's. I felt absorbed by his simple and elegant description of individuals and situations typical of the times. Julius is a genious of a boy who can register in his mind and in words the feelings and attitudes of the grown-ups that have a life full of frivolous encounters and parties, bullfights, and who continue on this course despite the tremendous differences in the two social strata that Bryce describes so well.

A novel that shows the end of innocence in a magical way
This is, with no doubt, the brightest book of this exceptional peruvian writer. Bryce has the ability to make you cry and laugh as you identify your own growing experience with the life of the main character, a little boy named Julius. The author makes us see why some things that have no importance when we are a kids later become the center of our existence, such as looks, political opinion or social status. This novel is delightful and is written with really good taste and sensibility. Since you begin to read it, you will find yourself trapped in a beatiful and sharp story about the social realitys of southamerican countries.

The best 70's Peruvian book!
Two main things are perfectly drawn in this book: The life of peruvian good-people in that decade, and the way a child tries to understand this way of life he has to live. Bryce makes you cry and in the next page makes you laugh, as in his best book "La Vida Exagerada de Martin Romanha". Both of them are WONDERFUL!!!