Cambio de guardia
Julio Ramón Ribeyro

NOVEL | 1976/2017 | 332 pages

When a general comes into power by way of a coup, a tyrant who decides to radically change not only the political life of a country, but the everyday collective and private activity of an entire community that perhaps never saw itself involved in these conflicts, is born. This is how a poor candy vendor, a humble creole turrón maker who leads an anonymous and miserable existence, winds up being judged and condemned to death under strange circumstances. And all because people as important and powerful as an ambitious general, a stingy minister, and a corrupt official who had never been linked together in any apparent way, entangle him in a messy scheme in spite of himself.

Cambio de guardia explores how the luck that governs the history of a nation ends up ruling through a complex system of mechanics and the mishaps of any of its inhabitants.

RIGHTS: spanish (peru) REVUELTA EDICIONES

BY JULIO RAMÓN RIBEYRO:

La palabra del mudo
STORIES, 1972/2021
La tentación del fracaso
NON FICTION, 1992/2019
Dichos de Luder
ESSAYS, 1989/2018
Cambio de guardia
NOVEL, 1976/2017
Teatro completo
PLAYS, 2017
La caza sutil
ESSAYS, 1975/2016
Crónica de San Gabriel
NOVEL, 1960/2014
Sólo para fumadores
STORIES, 1987/2009
Prosas apátridas
ESSAYS, 1975/2007
Los geniecillos dominicales
NOVEL, 1965
Los gallinazos sin plumas
STORIES, 19555