CRONICA DE SAN GABRIEL. EDITORI: CARLOS MILLA BATRES.

Lima: Editorial Milla Batres (Biblioteca de Autoires Peruanos. Vol. 9), 1975. Later printing. Paperback. 186p., indices, wrps. Very Good. Item #191732

The author's first novel, written in 1956.
San Gabriel is a hacienda in the interior of Peru. A teenager brought up in the capital comes to her for family reasons. "But San Gabriel is not a house, as you think," warns Jacinto, "the crazy one" of the family, "nor is it a town. It's a jungle." And, in fact, against all expectations, what Lucho finds in that rural world, of many generations of landowners, is a community that, like any community closed and isolated for a long time, "just by breathing the air, it is poisoned." » and in which «the biggest fish eats the little one» and «the weak have no right to live»…

Despite the attraction exerted on him by his bad and perverse cousin Leticia, Lucho will begin to feel the weight of the love miseries, the intrigues, the rivalries, the deceptions and the gratuitous fury with which his country relatives entertain themselves. Only the great earthquake will shake that world hitherto unscathed and, once "the gap is opened, some call others and soon they are legion."

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