Yo amo a mi mami (Spanish Edition)

Esta es la historia de Jimmy, un niño que ama a su madre. Sensible y solitario, dotado de una singular capacidad de observación, Jimmy vive con sus padres en una mansion en las afueras de Lima, estudia en el colegio ingles mas exclusivo de la ciudad, adora a su hermana mayor, cuya belleza ejerce sobre el una extraña fascinación, y suena con ir a Disney en las vacaciones, promesa que le ha hecho su padre, un banquero poderoso, y, cuando sea mayor y pueda casarse con Annie, la elusiva niña que enciende sus primeras fantasias, jugar a futbol en el F.C. Barcelona, el club de sus amores. Su madre, la señora mas regia de Lima, distinguida y ausente como Jackie O, apenas tiene tiempo para complacerlo, pero Jimmy recibe en cambio los mimos, desvelos, halagos y cariño de la legion de empleados que tiene a su servicio: la cocinera, el chofer, el ama de llaves, el jardinero, el mayordomo, entrañables personajes con los que, al descubrir un mundo hecho de ilusiones rotas y amores desbordados, va perdiendo la inocencia, y a quienes termina queriendo como a su propia familia. “Yo amo a mi mami” es la confirmación de que Jaime Bayly ha alcanzado una sorprendente madurez como escritor. Con esta novela tierna y conmovedora, que evoca los días perdidos de su infancia, Bayly despliega toda su admirable destreza narrativa, brilla con ese raro don de intensidad reservado a los grandes novelistas y confirma, sin lugar a dudas, que se ha erigido en una de las voces mas originales y poderosas de la nueva literatura hispanoamericana.
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This is the story of Jimmy, a boy who loves his mother. Sensitive and solitary, endowed with a unique capacity for observation, Jimmy lives with his parents in a mansion on the outskirts of Lima. He attends the most exclusive English school in the city, adores his older sister—whose beauty exerts a strange fascination over him—and dreams of going to Disney on vacation, a promise his father, a powerful banker, has made. When he grows up and can marry Annie, the elusive girl who awakens his first fantasies, he hopes to play football for FC Barcelona, the club he loves. His mother, the most elegant lady in Lima, refined and distant like Jackie O., barely has time for him. But Jimmy instead receives affection, care, praise, and warmth from the legion of servants at his disposal: the cook, the chauffeur, the housekeeper, the gardener, the butler—endearing characters with whom, as he discovers a world made up of broken dreams and overflowing love, he gradually loses his innocence, and whom he comes to love as if they were his own family. I Love My Mommy confirms that Jaime Bayly has reached a remarkable maturity as a writer. With this tender and moving novel, which evokes the lost days of his childhood, Bayly displays his admirable narrative skill, shines with that rare intensity reserved for great novelists, and undoubtedly establishes himself as one of the most original and powerful voices in contemporary Latin American literature.