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Periferica Blvd.

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Es Periférica Blvd, una imagen más de la ciudad de La Paz? Una muestra de esa ciudad escondida que late de noche y que pocos tienen el privilegio de conocer?. Un acercamiento a personajes marginales que se desarrollan y crean su propio mundo al margen del mundo que no les toma en cuenta, para el que ni siquiera existen?. Una respuesta a estas interroganets es sí, pero Periférica Blvd. es eso y mucho más.

-- De la reseña de Ariel Mustaffá

271 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

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Profile Image for Juan Pablo.
82 reviews6 followers
March 7, 2022
No es para mi, no pude acabarlo y tuve que dejarlo. La jerga paceña es divertida, pero al costo de confundirme como lector, sin poder comprender ni escenario ni los personajes.
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134 reviews14 followers
June 24, 2008
Es uno de las mejores novelas bolivianas que he leido. El uso del lenguaje es fenomenal y exige del lector una concentración necesaria para seguir tanto la trama como los diálogos.
Soy un fanático de esta novela y la he recomendado en todos lados.
6 reviews1 follower
September 18, 2023
Es un libro muy divertido. Nos acerca a la periferia alteña desde la perspectiva de un cabo de policía. Asimismo, el autor utiliza recursos visuales como grafittis para enfatizar en los escenarios. Este libro cuenta con una versión de novela gráfica.
Profile Image for Enrique Mendoza.
69 reviews
March 5, 2021
Sin duda uno de los mejores libros de la Literatura Boliviana. Personajes verosímiles e historia muy dinámica.
Profile Image for José Enrique Gonzales Nogales.
2 reviews
October 25, 2022
Reality can be more exciting than fiction. First of all, this book seems difficult to read, but when you continue and follow the story you can enjoy it more. It requires all full attention and sometimes reading aloud to make sense of the words in this book. Second this is the story of the “Teniente” and his “cabo”, both immersed in a night with prostitutions, pervertions and of course so funny situations. Third, my best part was when the “cabo” became a complicit of all of the excess generated by this couple. This is not a story for lovers about happy endings or deep reflections, this is a story to laugh and discover the environment in which the people of the city of La Paz-Bolivia live.
Profile Image for Alejandra Almaraz.
10 reviews
January 15, 2025
Adolfo Cárdenas y yo tenemos algo por los listados, lo cual se aprecia mucho.
Disfruté mucho las referencias, la variedad de dialectos y de voces para cada personaje, y especialmente a Severo como narrador. El misterio y suspenso quedaron en segundo plano.
Profile Image for Jhon Ramos.
23 reviews
November 20, 2023
Fue una noche de pura droga, seso y mucho alcohol.
Una pena que el autor haya muerto. Me hubiera gustado hablar con él.
Profile Image for Maite.
240 reviews10 followers
December 11, 2024
Interesante novela boliviana, divertida, pero el exceso de jerga panela dificulta la lectura generando confusión si no estás acostumbrado a su uso
Profile Image for Annamari Laaksonen.
91 reviews
June 30, 2024
Runner up for the National Literature Prize in 2005, this book is situated in the urban environment of fast-talking, drug-fuelled underground clubs and urban misfits in La Paz. It is a book that reads like a movie. The dialogue is a mixture of Spanish and urban slang with Indigenous words and the story moves as a dialogue that is somewhat confusing regarding who is doing the talking at times. The story unfolds as a sort of detective story of the murder of an underground heavyweight (“the King”) and the hunt for his presumed killer (“the Wolf”). The book contains graffiti illustrations and the book is a bit like graffiti itself – bold and colourful, and quite frankly probably difficult if not impossible to translate into another language as the core of the book is the urban dialogue that is highly localised. Some of the idioms are foreign to me but overall it’s quite easy and engaging to follow the delicious explosion of urban jargon and the fast-paced symphony for the marginalised and the outcasts.  

I read this book as part of our project Virtual Nomad that explores and celebrates food, writing, cinema and music from different countries. www.myvirtualnomad.com
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