Memoirs of a Woman from Lima

What if memory were not a record of the past, but another way of inventing it?

Alonso Cueto, winner of the Herralde Novel Prize and one of Peru’s most acclaimed contemporary writers, returns with MEMOIRS OF A WOMAN FROM LIMA, an intimate portrait of a woman and a city transformed by time.

Approaching seventy, Adriana Verón Taipe begins to write the story of her life from her house overlooking the sea. What starts as the memory of a happy childhood in Lima gradually reveals a past marked by sudden loss, guilt, desire and nostalgia.

Against a city entering the twentieth century through trams, ballrooms and aristocratic promenades, Adriana attempts to distinguish between what she lived, what she imagined and what might have been.

A compelling period novel about memory, identity and the traces a life leaves behind.