by Alfredo Bryce Echenique · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433972132
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«La esposa del Rey de las Curvas» is the short story collection by Alfredo Bryce Echenique, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (176 pages, in Spanish).
A volume of ten stories in which the Peruvian author portrays the nostalgia of a lost adolescence, the privileges and limitations of a social class, and the romantic adventures of characters living between two worlds. Several stories show mature protagonists reviewing their past and confronting their obsessions, with the humor and irony typical of Bryce Echenique.
Published in 2010 in Anagrama's Narrativas hispánicas collection (no. 474).
Recommended for those who enjoy short stories and contemporary Latin American narrative.
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.
