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Author
Publisher
Santillana USA
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Español
Description
El destino de Bobby parece estar jodido desde que se volvió cojo. Sus padres se avergüenzan de él y lo envían a estudiar fuera. En el barco es abusado por la tripulación. Humillado, se propone nunca más ser la víctima y pasar a ser el victimario. Apasionado de las motos y las armas de fuego, incapaz de ser leal o de amar, vuelve a Lima dispuesto a vengar su suerte contrariada. El loco Pancho es bruto, feo, sucio y tartamudo. Además, está...
Author
Series
Lola Levine volume 5
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Lola is ecstatic to learn that their family will visit her favorite aunt in Peru, where she and Ben discover the wonderful adventures to be found in Lima while struggling to stay out of trouble.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
"Jimmy vive en las afueras de Lima, estudia en un colegio inglés y sueña con ir a Disney. Como el de todo niño, su mundo está lleno de héroes, algunos domésticos y familiares; otros, radiales, televisivos, futboleros; ninguno, sin embargo, se parece a su padre, un exitoso hombre de negocios eternamente malhumorado. Su madre, mujer fina y devota, en cambio, es el centro de sus ilusiones. De su mano, Jimmy, sensible, tierno, divertido, descubre...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and demands that he invest in the magazine. Enrique refuses, and the next day the pictures are on the front page. Meanwhile, Enrique's wife is in the midst of a passionate and secret affair with the wife of Enrique's lawyer and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
In a newly revised version of the author's third novel, Gabriel, a young man who works as a reporter for a Lima television station and is attracted to both men and women, is a heavy cocaine user to avoid the evils he sees in Peruvian life.
7) Cien cuyes
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"In a residential neighborhood of Lima overlooking the ocean, some well-to-do elderly people suffer the deterioration of their lives. Frasia, pressed by her economic needs, and who must work to raise her son Nico, has gradually become a vital companion to some of those older folks. If she could only manage to save up the money to buy ten guinea pigs, she could, as her uncle always told her, start a new life. Thus, every day she crosses the city by...
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