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The Cardboard House

✍ Scribed by Martín Adán

Book ID
112017224
Publisher
New Directions
Year
2012
Tongue
en-US
Weight
189 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780811219983

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✦ Synopsis

A sweeping, kaleidoscopic, and passionate novel that presents a stunning series of flashes—scenes, moods, dreams, and weather—as the narrator wanders through Lima.

Published in 1928 to great acclaim when its author was just twenty years old, The Cardboard House is sweeping, kaleidoscopic, and passionate. The novel presents a stunning series of flashes—scenes, moods, dreams, and weather—as the narrator wanders through Barranco (then an exclusive seaside resort outside Lima). In one beautiful, radical passage after another, he skips from reveries of first loves, South Pole explorations, and ocean tides, to precise and unashamed notations of class and of race: an Indian woman "with her hard, shiny, damp head of hair—a mud carving," to a gringo gobbling "synthetic milk, canned meat, hard liquor."

Adán's own aristocratic family was in financial freefall at the time, and, as the translator notes, The Cardboard House is as...

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