by Alfredo Bryce Echenique · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408048329
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«El huerto de mi amada» is the novel by Alfredo Bryce Echenique, published by Booket in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
In Lima's high society, Carlitos Alegre, a seventeen-year-old youth, falls in love with Natalia de Larrea, a beautiful and sophisticated woman of thirty-three. After scandalising their families at a party, the couple takes refuge in her country house while facing social and legal opposition; with humour and tenderness, the novel addresses love, class and conventions.
Winner of the Premio Planeta 2002. The 2003 Booket edition belongs to the Biblioteca Premios Planeta collection.
For readers of romantic and social fiction who appreciate humour and irony in 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.
