Summary: Tirinea has a simple plot somehow freeing it from the conventional narrative approach. This is a story with two characters: a young writer named “Fielko” and a character called “The Old Man” who regulates the plot, the language, the memory and the exploitation of a country frequently hurt by incomprehension, who strives to fulfil his mission without detaching himself from life. The story describes vivid memories which, like shining meteorites, fleetingly cross the hazy depths of a senile memory, where an irresponsible and carefree good humour encounters, from time to time, the languid ghost of a sadness brought back from the world of the forgotten, for just a twinge of sorrow. The persistent subjectivism of a universal tale, but within a psychological and social context, gives the novel a clearly Bolivian stamp.

Reason for the choice: This novel has been selected for its technical narrative value: it is one of the first models in Bolivia of a magic contour and should be part of the Latin American “boom”.

Rights Holder: the author