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The
2003 Award
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Tarzan's Tonsilitis by
Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Nominated by:
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Publisher of Nominated Edition: Pantheon Books ISBN 0375421432 |
| the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors. |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| A tragi-comic story of improbable, inevitable love. At the centre: 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 1960's Paris, revolutionary El Salvador, Chile, 1980's California and London, we follow the thirty-year arc of their relationship: the 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 realisation that the truest bond between lovers is a tender, abiding and respectful friendship. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Alfredo Bryce Echenique was born in 1939 in Peru. He is the author of thirteen previous works of fiction and non-fiction, including the novel, A World for Julius. He divides his time between France and Paris. |
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