Conversation in the Cathedral, (Paperback)

from TheWasp

Sandiago Zavalita, son of a wealthy businessman, meets Ambrosio, his father's old chauffer, when he goes to collect his dog from the pound. Over many beers at "the Catedral" they relate their lives over the intervening years. Set in Peru with a backdrop of political turmoil and corruption. This i...

from snash

This is a book about corruption on both the public and private level throughout society. The ambience of that depravity is created by presenting an entwined story from many points of view jumping frequently from one point of view to another and from one time to another. It sometimes makes followi...

from TheWasp

Sandiago Zavalita, son of a wealthy businessman, meets Ambrosio, his father's old chauffer, when he goes to collect his dog from the pound. Over many beers at "the Catedral" they relate their lives over the intervening years. Set in Peru with a backdrop of political turmoil and corruption. This i...

from lriley

Set during the time of the Odria dictatorship in Peru this novel examines the gap between the poor and the powerful probably as well as anything that I have ever read. Santiago the son of an extremely wealthy industrialist rejects that life by first joining a communist party cell and after it is ...

from deebee1

One afternoon in the late 1960s somewhere in the streets of Lima, Santiago, goes out in search of the family dog. At the pound, he meets the aging Ambrosio, his father's former chauffeur, whom he has not seen for 15 years. Later, in a lengthy conversation over beers, Santiago and Ambrosio talk of...