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The sky over Lima / Juan Gómez Bárcena ; translated from Spanish by Andrea Rosenberg.
- 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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PQ6707.O5255 C5413 2016 | Off-site |
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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
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Fiction.
- Biographical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Note
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780544630055
- 054463005X
- 9780544630062 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2015037011
- OCLC
- 913924004
- SCSB-12315151
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library