The Sky Over Lima

Based on a historic literary hoax, this “charming” novel is “a love letter to the creative process” from one of Spain’s most original authors ( Kirkus Reviews ).   José Gálvez and Carlos Rodríguez are poets. Or, at least, they’d like to be. Sons of Lima’s elite in the early twentieth century, they scribble poorly constructed verses and read the greats: Rilke, Rimbaud, and, above all others, Juan Ramón Jímenez, the Spanish Maestro. Desperate for Jímenez’s latest work, unavailable in Lima, th