Lima nights
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Word Count
61,500 words, Guess
Page Count
246 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivelimanightsnovel00aran
- ISBN-139780385342582
- ISBN-100385342586
- Goodreads3920142
- LibraryThing6293880
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- Library of Congress Control Number2008032357
- OCLC Control Number232129626
- Better World Books9780385342582
- Open LibraryOL17009651M
Classifications
- DDC813/.6
- LCCPS3601.R345 L56 2009
- LCCPS3601.R345L56 2009
Description
From a National Book Award finalist--for her memoir American Chica--and the author of the acclaimed novel Cellophane comes this spare, powerful story of sexual obsession and its consequences.Carlos Bluhm leads the good life in upper-class Lima: he attends social functions with his elegant wife, goes out drinking with his three best friends, has the occasional, fleeting assignation. . . . Until he meets Maria Fernandez, a dancer at a tango bar in a rough part of town. The beautiful sixteen-year-old intoxicates him. An indigenous dark-skinned Peruvian, she represents everything his safe white world does not, and soon he can't get her out of his mind. They begin a passionate affair, one that will destroy his marriage and shatter the only reality he's ever known.Flash forward twenty years: against all odds, Carlos and Maria have remained together. But when Maria finally presses for a formal commitment, feelings long suppressed erupt in a tense endgame that sends both of them hurtling toward a dangerous resolution that will forever alter their lives.Brilliantly realized, erotic, unsentimental, Lima Nights is a unique love story and a stunning work of fiction that will reverberate long after its final page.From the Hardcover edition.
Description
Enjoying the good life in upper-class Lima, Peru, with an elegant wife, three terrific drinking buddies, and an occasional fling, Carlos Bluhm becomes obsessed with Maria Fernandez, a beautiful sixteen-year-old dancer at a seedy tango bar.
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