num_pages: 601
description: A chance meeting between upper-class journalist Santiago Zavala and former chauffeur Ambrosio in a Lima bar-and-brothel generates multiple exposures of political and personal corruption and terror in modern Peru under military dictatorship
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: Conversation in the Cathedral
titlecomplete: Conversation in the Cathedral (English and Spanish Edition)
genres: Fiction, Latin American, Spanish Literature, Literature, Latin American Literature, Classics, Novels, Nobel Prize, Historical Fiction, 20th Century
ratings_count: 9079
places: Lima
publisher: Harper & Row