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Cusco features fantastic architecture: a gigantic pyramid has been built with 225 floors and 3 kilometers in height, along with a library housing 12 million books. A tunnel starts in Arequipa, passes through a volcano, and reaches the interior of the pyramid. These concepts also make the novel the first architectural utopia. [5]
The Celestine Prophecy: An Adventure is a 1993 novel by James Redfield that discusses various psychological and spiritual ideas rooted in multiple ancient Eastern traditions and New Age spirituality. The main character undertakes a journey to find and understand a series of nine spiritual insights in an ancient manuscript in Peru .
Drums for Rancas (Spanish: Redoble por Rancas) is a 1970 novel by Peruvian author Manuel Scorza that represents the historical struggles of the inhabitants of the Department of Cerro de Pasco [1] as they fight to recuperate control and ownership of their communal lands from the Peruvian government and multinational mining interests.
A selection of historical novels set by epoch and author. (accessed 08-2010) Annotated list of historical novels for children and teens Anchorage Public Library; History networking Authors, Publishers, Editors, Researchers. Suggest tools and sources, help with reading list, discussions challenges. Network, promote books or find work.
According to the author's correspondence, the draft of the novel was first conceived in the early months of 1966. In letters to the Spanish editor Carlos Barral dated from that year, Arguedas tells him about a draft novel that would concern anchovy fishermen and the revolution produced by the fishmeal industry on the Peruvian coast. [1]
The Green House (Original title: La Casa Verde) is the second novel by the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, published in 1966.The novel is set over a period of forty years (from the early part of the 20th century to the 1960s) in two regions of Peru: Piura, a dusty town near the coast in the north, and Peruvian Amazonia, specifically the jungle region near the Marañón river.
When asked if his characters were historical or imagined, Wilder replied, "The Perichole and the Viceroy are real people, under the names they had in history [a street singer named Micaela Villegas and her lover Manuel de Amat y Junyent, who was Viceroy of Peru at the time]. Most of the events were invented by me, including the fall of the bridge."