Scarred physically and emotionally when he is emasculated by a savage Great Dane, a young Peruvian experiences the difficulties of adolescence and manhood in one of seven tales by a Latin American novelist which are brought together in this volume

The Cubs and Other Stories (English and Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

mario-vargas-llosa

Contemporary

Harper Row Publishers

This delightful farce opens as the prim and proper Captain Pantoja learns he is to be sent to Peruâ€™s Amazon frontier on a secret mission for the armyâ€”to provide females for the amorous recruits. Side-splitting complications arise as world of Captain Pantoja's remarkable achievements start to spread.

Captain Pantoja and the Special Service

Literary

Harper&Row

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

Conversation in the Cathedral (English and Spanish Edition)

A Haunting tale of power, corruption, and the complex search for identity Conversation in The Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odría. Over beers and a sea of freely spoken words, the conversation flows between two individuals, Santiago and Ambrosia, who talk of their tormented lives and of the overall degradation and frustration that has slowly taken over their town.
Through a complicated web of secrets and historical references, Mario Vargas Llosa analyzes the mental and moral mechanisms that govern power and the people behind it. More than a historic analysis, Conversation in The Cathedral is a groundbreaking novel that tackles identity as well as the role of a citizen and how a lack of personal freedom can forever scar a people and a nation.

Conversation in the Cathedral

United States

Harper-perennial

A powerful social satire which outraged the authorities of the author's native Peru, where 1000 copies were publicly burned.

The Time of the Hero

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

A collection of stories from Spanish America for the high school & undergraduate student

Seven Stories From Spanish America

Gordon Brotherston

Pergamon

This is a collection of short stories that includes "Vargas Llosa for President", as well as stories from Steiner Novella, Graham Swift, T. Coraghessan Boyle's "Sitting on Top of the World" and Sergio Ramirez's "The Rise and Fall of the Sandinistas".

Granta 36: Vargas Llosa for President

History & Criticism

Granta Publications Ltd.

The author recounts his life from his birth in Arequipa through his 1990 bid for the Peruvian presidency, and reveals the experiences that he transformed into his critically acclaimed literary works

A Fish in the Water: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Penguin

The green house

J. Cape

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date :2008-10-28 Pages: 309 Publisher: China University of Science and Technology Press From Publishers Weekly Veteran Peruvian novelist Vargas Llosas appealing. nostalgic latest opens in the summer of 1950. as Ricardo Slim Somocurcio. a rambunctious teen in the affluent Miraflores section of Lima. meets 14-year-old nymph Lily. With her younger sister. Lily is masquerading as a wealthy. liberated Chilean girl to disguise her slum origins. She is soon exposed by a jealous schoolmate and disappears. but Ricardo is smitten. There are dashes of Vertigo and Last Year at Marienbad in what follows. As an adult. Ricardos work as a translator for UNESCO takes him over the decades everywhere from late 50s Paris to the Beatless London to gangland Tokyo. Everywhere he goes. his bad girl shows up in dramatically different disguises. denying she was his chi...

The Bad Girl

University of Science and Technology of China Press

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