by Bodo Kirchhoff · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472233935
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«Infanta» is a contemporary fiction novel by Bodo Kirchhoff, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (384 pages, in Spanish).
Kurt Lukas, an advertising model, travels to Infanta and a Jesuit invites him to his mission, where elderly priests, a peculiar novice, and Mayla, a young Filipina, live. Caught between the mission and Doña Elvira's party hall, he experiences an intense love while the country undergoes political upheaval before Cory Aquino's victory.
It belongs to the Andanzas collection, number 155. The work was originally published in 1990 and this Spanish edition in 1991.
For readers of literary fiction and contemporary fiction, with a story set in the Philippines and a political backdrop.
Bodo Kirchhoff is a German writer and novelist. He was born in Hamburg before moving with his family to Kirchzarten in the Black Forest in 1955, which he describes as a culture shock. In addition to writing literary fiction, he has worked on various projects for German television, such as long-runner Tatort, and has written movie screenplays. One of his best-known novels is Infanta (1990), which has been translated into more than a dozen languages. In 2016, his novel, which features an African migrant in Italy, Encounter won the German Book Prize.
