by Alfredo Bryce Echenique · Editorial Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408045793
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«El huerto de mi amada» is the novel by Alfredo Bryce Echenique, published by Editorial Planeta in 2002, in paperback (286 pages, in Spanish).
Carlitos Alegre, a young man from Lima, bursts into a family party and is fascinated by Natalia de Larrea, a thirty-three-year-old woman. After a scandal that leads to both fleeing, the couple settles in her country house, but family opposition results in a charge of corruption of minors. The story, narrated with humour and tenderness, follows the boy's coming-of-age and the lovers' struggle to protect their passion against a conservative society.
Novel winner of the Premio Planeta de Novela in 2002. It was published by Editorial Planeta in the Autores Españoles e Iberoamericanos collection.
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.
