Mario Vargas Llosa
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
©2003
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Recounts the stories of civil rights campaigner Flora Tristan and Paul Gauguin, the artist grandson who was born after her death, in a tale that follows Flora's struggles with class imbalances and her grandson's effort to escape civilization.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The fantasies of a frustrated husband. The protagonist is a Peruvian insurance executive whose second wife had an affair with his son. He threw her out and is reduced to sleeping with her in his imagination.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From its origins, the liberal doctrine has represented the most advanced forms of democratic culture, and it is what has most defended us from the inextinguishable "call of the tribe." This book hopes to make a modest contribution to that indispensable task. In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that have shaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over the past fifty years. The Nobel laureate, "tireless in his quest...
5) Harsh times
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The true story of Guatemala's political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell it"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
x, 292 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Internationally acclaimed novelist Mario Vargas Llosa has contributed a biweekly column to Spain's major newspaper, El País, since 1977. In this collection of columns from the 1990s, Vargas Llosa weighs in on the burning questions of the last decade, including the travails of
Latin American democracy, the role of religion in civic life, and the future of globalization. But, Vargas Llosa's influence is hardly limited to politics. In some of the...
Author
Language
English
Description
Publisher description: It is 1961. The Dominican Republic languishes under economic sanctions the Catholic church spurs its clergy against the government from its highest ranks down, the country is arrested in bone-chilling fear. In The Feast of the Goat, Vargas Llosa unflinchingly tells the story of a regime's final days and the unsteady efforts of the men who would replace it. His narrative skates between the rituals of the hated dictator, Rafael...
