El chulla Romero y Flores
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El Chulla Romero y Flores is a 1958 novel by the Ecuadorian writer Jorge Icaza (1906–1978).
The book explores mestizo cultural identity. The protagonist, Romero y Flores, is conflicted between identifying with either his father's Spanish descent or his mother's Amerindian origins. Once he attains a balance of identity, he finds the tranquility he has been searching for.
The book has been translated into many languages, including Czech, German, and French, among others. It has not yet been translated into English.
While Icaza's 1934 novel Huasipungo (English trans: The Villagers, 1964) is his most famous work, many literary experts, such as Theodore Alan Sackett in El arte en la novelística de Jorge Icaza (1974), have hailed El chulla Romero y Flores as his masterpiece.
