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Huerto Cerrado
Contributor(s): Wood, David (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0719064139     ISBN-13: 9780719064135
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Binding Type: Paperback
Published: August 2007
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Annotation: Alfredo Bryce Echenique is one of the most widely-read and most widely translated Latin American authors of recent decades, yet this is the first critical edition that makes his work available to students of Hispanic literatures in the English-speaking world. Combining humor and informal language to explore adolescence in middle-class Peru, this edition provides ready points of engagement for young (and not-so-young) adults. The stories and main themes are explained and analyzed through a critical introduction, comprehensive notes and vocabulary prepared by one of the leading international scholars of the author's work.

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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Caribbean & Latin American
- History | Latin America - General
Series: Hispanic Texts
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5" W x 7.7" L (0.45 lbs) 192 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Latin America
Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Table of Contents
 
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Alfredo Bryce Echenique is one of the most widely-read and most widely translated Latin American authors of recent decades, yet this is the first critical edition that makes his work available to students of Hispanic literatures in the English-speaking world. Combining humour and informal
language to explore adolescence in middle-class Peru, this edition provides ready points of engagement for young (and not-so-young) adults. The stories and main themes are explained and analysed through a critical introduction, comprehensive notes and vocabulary prepared by one of the leading
international scholars of the author's work.

Huerto cerrado offers an ideal point of entry to many of the key issues of contemporary Latin American literature, such as the concern with youth and popular culture, issues relating to sexuality, and challenges to dominant social and political structures. This edition offers insights not only into
contemporary Peru and the relationship between that country's society and its literature, but also the work of one of the continent's outstanding literary voices.
 
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