"A retelling of a fantastical true story: two young men seduce Nobel laureate Juan Ramon Jimâenez with the words of an imaginary woman and inspire one of his greatest love poems. Jose Galvez
and Carlos Rodriguez are poets. Or, at least, they’d like to be. Sons of Lima’s elite in the early twentieth century, they scribble bad verses and read the greats: Rilke, Rimbaud, and, above
all others, Juan Ramon Jimâenez, the Spanish Maestro. Desperate for Jimâenez’s latest work, unavailable in Lima, they decide to ask him for a copy. They’re sure Jimâenez won’t send two
dilettantes his book, but he might favor a beautiful woman. They write to him as the lovely, imaginary Georgina Hubner. Jimâenez responds with a letter and a book. Elated, Jose and Carlos write
back. Their correspondence continues, as the Maestro falls in love with Georgina, and the boys abandon poetry for the pages of Jimâenez’s life."--