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The sky over Lima

Title
The sky over Lima / Juan Gómez Bárcena ; translated from Spanish by Andrea Rosenberg.
Author
Gómez Bárcena, Juan, 1984-
Publication
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.

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Additional Authors
Rosenberg, Andrea
Description
275 pages; 22 cm
Summary
"A retelling of a fantastical true story: two young men seduce Nobel laureate Juan Ramon Jiménez with the words of an imaginary woman and inspire one of his greatest love poems. Jose Galvez and Carlos Rodriguez are poets. Or, at least, they'd like to be. Sons of Lima's elite in the early twentieth century, they scribble bad verses and read the greats: Rilke, Rimbaud, and, above all others, Juan Ramon Jiménez, the Spanish Maestro. Desperate for Jiménez's latest work, unavailable in Lima, they decide to ask him for a copy. They're sure Jiménez won't send two dilettantes his book, but he might favor a beautiful woman. They write to him as the lovely, imaginary Georgina Hubner. Jiménez responds with a letter and a book. Elated, Jose and Carlos write back. Their correspondence continues, as the Maestro falls in love with Georgina, and the boys abandon poetry for the pages of Jiménez's life."--
Uniform Title
Cielo de Lima. English
Alternative Title
Cielo de Lima.
Subject
  • Jiménez, Juan Ramón, 1881-1958 > Fiction
  • Poets > Fiction
  • FICTION / Literary
  • FICTION / Historical
Genre/Form
  • Biographical fiction.
  • Historical fiction.
Call Number
JFD 16-3398
ISBN
  • 9780544630055
  • 054463005X
LCCN
2015037011
OCLC
2015037011
Author
Gómez Bárcena, Juan, 1984-
Title
The sky over Lima / Juan Gómez Bárcena ; translated from Spanish by Andrea Rosenberg.
Publisher
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Added Author
Rosenberg, Andrea, translator.
Research Call Number
JFD 16-3398
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