by Jaime Bayly · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433910691
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«La noche es virgen» is the novel by Jaime Bayly, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardcover (192 pages, in Spanish).
Gabriel Barrios is a young man from Lima's high society who leads a hedonistic life between Lima and Miami, marked by television fame and excess. One night he meets Mariano, leader of a rock band, and that encounter leads him to question his identity and his place in society. An ironic novel about desire, social class, and the search for happiness in contemporary Lima.
It belongs to the Narrativas hispánicas collection, number 239. It won the XV Herralde Novel Prize. First edition.
Recommended for readers of contemporary narrative in Spanish and of novels that portray recent Hispanic American culture.
Jaime Bayly Letts is a Peruvian writer, journalist, and television personality. He has won an Emmy Award and two of his books have been adapted into international movies. He also won the Premio Herralde in 1997 for his novel La Noche es Virgen, a major literary award in the world of Spanish literature that has been granted to writers such as Roberto Bolaño, Mariana Enriquez, and Enrique Vila-Matas.
