
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...
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The narrator reflects on his own adolescence, the emergence of Peru from its colonial past, and the European travelers in the resort town of Barranco.