CITY · PERUBooks set in Lima
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11 books · 8 authors · 1927–2020
11 books here
Most-set authors
Mario Vargas Llosa (4) · Alfredo Bryce Echenique (1) · Claudia Salazar Jiménez (1) · Silvia Vasquez-Lavado (1) · Samanta Schweblin (1) · Alonso Cueto (1)
Genres
literary fiction (6) · historical fiction (1)
Books set here
Set in Lima (6)
A World for Julius
Alfredo Bryce Echenique
upper-class Lima childhood
Conversation in the Cathedral
Mario Vargas Llosa
Odría-era Lima dive bar
The Blue Hour
Alonso Cueto
post-civil war Lima society
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
18th-century Lima
The Time of the Hero
Mario Vargas Llosa
military school campus
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Mario Vargas Llosa
Lima upper-class district
Also featuring Lima (5)
Blood of the Dawn
Claudia Salazar Jiménez
Origin of journalist and photographer characters
In The Shadow of the Mountain
Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
Childhood in 1980s Lima — backdrop of civil strife and formative trauma
Little Eyes
Samanta Schweblin
One of the primary recurring locations across multiple chapters
The Storyteller
Mario Vargas Llosa
Narrator university years framing
Undiscovered
Gabriela Wiener
Lima, Peru; Gabriela returns to mourn her father and reckon with her Peruvian heritage and colonial history
Notable locations in Lima
Leoncio Prado Military Academy1Miraflores1