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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: Faber Modern Classics by Mario Vargas Llosa
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Modern Classics Ser.
Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals. The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirtee ...Show more
Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In an isolated community in the Peruvian Andes, a series of mysterious disappearances has occurred. Army corporal Lituma and his deputy Tomas believe the Shining Path guerrillas are responsible, but the towns people have their own ideas about the forces that claimed the bodies of the missing men. This r ...Show more
Discreet Hero by Mario VARGAS LLOSA
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Felicito Yanaque has raised himself from poverty to ownership of a trucking business. His two sons work for him. He receives a threatening letter demanding protection money. The police don't take him seriously, Felicito refuses to pay up and gets sucked into a nightmare. He becomes a reluctant public he ...Show more
El Heroe Discreto (a Discreet Hero) by Mario Vargas Llosa
29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
El h roe discreto simultaneously recounts the life of two very different men. Fel cito Yanaqu is a small-business owner from Piura who is being blackmailed. Ismael Carrera is a successful businessman from Lima who is plotting a shocking reprisal after his two good-for-nothing sons tried to have him kill ...Show more
Harsh Times by Mario Vargas Llosa
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Category: Fiction
THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE"A wildly enjoyable book; the 85-year-old Vargas Llosa is as sharp and mordantly funny as ever." Financial TimesGuatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which ...Show more
Harsh Times by Mario Vargas Llosa
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning master of fiction - the true story of Guatemala's political turmoil of the 1950s. Guatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changed the development of Latin America ...Show more
IN PRAISE OF THE STEPMOTHER by LLOSA MARIO VARGAS
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Category: Fiction
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE With meticulous observation and the seductive skill of a great storyteller, Vargas Llosa lures the reader into the shadow of perversion that, little by little, darkens the extraordinary happiness and harmony of his characters. The mysterious nature of happines ...Show more
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation by Michael Chabon; Ayelet Waldman ; Colum Mccann ; Colm Toibin ; Dave Eggers ; Geraldine Brooks ; Jacqueline Woodson ; Mario Vargas Llosa
27.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Thien, Eimear McBride, Taiye Selasi and editors Michael Cha ...Show more
Notes on the Death of Culture by Mario Vargas Llosa
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The searing essay collection by the Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian novelist and social critic in paperback for the first time. In the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of distraction and entertainment ...Show more
Sabers and Utopias - Visions of Latin America: Essays by Mario Vargas Llosa; Anna Kushner (Translator)
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Category: Anthologies
A landmark collection of essays on the Nobel laureate's conception of Latin America, past, present, and future Throughout his career, the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa has grappled with the concept of Latin America on a global stage. Examining liberal claims and searching for cohesion, he conti ...Show more
The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as 'Lily' in Lima in 1950, where she claims to be from Chile but vanishes the moment her claim is exposed as fiction. He loves her next in Paris as 'Comrade Arlette', an activist en route to Cuba, an icy, remote lover who de ...Show more
The Call of the Tribe by Mario Vargas Llosa
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The intellectual autobiography of Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature-and an author who is 'tireless in his quest to probe the nature of the human animal' - Washington Post