Lima nights

From a National Book Award finalist--for her memoir American Chica--and the author of the acclaimed novel Cellophane comes this spare, powerful story of sexual obsession and its consequences.Carlos Bluhm leads the good life in upper-class Lima: he attends social functions with his elegant wife, goes out drinking with his three best friends, has the occasional, fleeting assignation. . . . Until he meets Maria Fernandez, a dancer at a tango bar in a rough part of town. The beautiful sixteen-year-old intoxicates him. An indigenous dark-skinned Peruvian, she represents everything his safe white…