by Alfredo Bryce Echenique · PEISA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789972400971
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«La amigdalitis de Tarzán» is the novel by Alfredo Bryce Echenique, published by PEISA in 1998 in paperback (245 pages, in Spanish).
The novel adopts an epistolary narrative: the exchanged letters between a Peruvian singer-songwriter and a Salvadoran upper-class woman in Europe show a frustrated love in parallel with the political and social upheavals of Latin America over twenty-five years.
The novel was nominated in 2002 for the Grinzane Cavour Prize, in the Narrativa Straniera category; this Spanish edition consists of 245 pages.
For those interested in Latin American narrative and epistolary novels.
Alfredo Marcelo Bryce Echenique was a Peruvian writer. He wrote numerous books and short stories; he is best known for his 1970 work A World for Julius. At the time of his death, he was considered to be the last living representative of the Latin American Boom, although he has also been categorized as being part of post-boom literature.
