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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriterby Mario Vargas LlosaISBN 0140248927 (0-14-024892-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter'Book summary:Reality merges with fantasy in this hilarious comic novel about the world of radio soap operas and the pitfalls of forbidden passion by the bestselling author of The Storyteller. Sexy, sophisticated, older Aunt Julia, now divorced, seeks a new mate who can support her in high style. She finds instead her libidinous nephew, and their affair shocks both famiy and community. [via]
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Captain Pantoja and the Special Serviceby Mario Vargas LlosaISBN 0060144947 (0-06-014494-7)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Captain Pantoja and the Special Service'Book summary:[via]This delightful farce opens as the prim and proper Captain Pantoja learns he is to be sent to Perus Amazon frontier on a secret mission for the armyto provide females for the amorous recruits. Side-splitting complications arise as world of Captain Pantoja's remarkable achievements start to spread.
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Conversation In The Cathedralby Mario Vargas Llosa , Gregory RabassaISBN 0060732806 (0-06-073280-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Conversation In The Cathedral'Book summary:Under the rule of the unseen military dictator General Ordia, suspicion, paranoia and blackmail become realities of public and private life. Through the doors of the Cathedral, a bar and brothel in Lima, come the participants in this novel, including the central character Ambrosio. [via]
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The Cubs and Other Storiesby Mario Vargas LlosaISBN 0060144912 (0-06-014491-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cubs and Other Stories'Book summary:[via]The Cubs and Other Stories is Mario Vargas Llosas only volume of short fiction available in English. Vargas Llosas domain is the Peru of male youth and machismo, where lifes dramas play themselves out on the soccer field, the dance floor, and on street corners.
The title story, The Cubs, tells the story of the carefree boyhood of P.P. Cuellar and his friends, and of P.P.s bizarre accident and tragic coming of age. Innovative in style and technique, it is a work of both physical and psychic loss.
In a candid and perceptive forward to this collection of early writing, Vargas llosa provides background to the volume and a unique glimpse into the mind of the Nobel Prize-winning artist.More editions of The Cubs and Other Stories:
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Death in the Andesby Mario Vargas Llosa , Edith GrossmanISBN 0140262156 (0-14-026215-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death in the Andes'Book summary:Evocatively intermingling past and present, the corporeal and the spiritual, Death in the Andes offers a fascinating panoramic view of contemporary Peru, telling the story of the disappearance of three men from a remote Andean village and the soldiers called in to investigate. [via]
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The Feast of the Goatby Mario Vargas Llosa , Edith GrossmanISBN 0312420277 (0-312-42027-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Feast of the Goat'Book summary:Mario Vargas Llosa, a former candidate for the presidency of Peru, is better placed than most novelists to write about the machinations of Latin American politics. In The Feast of the Goat he offers a vivid re-creation of the Dominican Republic during the final days of General Rafael Trujillo's insidious and evil regime. Told from several viewpoints, the book has three distinctive, alternating strands. There is Urania Cabral, the daughter of Trujillo's disgraced secretary of state, who has returned to Santo Domingo after more than 30 years. Now a successful New York lawyer, Urania has never forgiven her aging and paralyzed father, Agustín, for literally sacrificing her to the carnal despot in the hope of regaining his political post. Flipping back to May of 1961, there is a group of assassins, all equally scarred by Trujillo, waiting to gun the Generalissimo down. Finally there is an astonishing portrait of Trujillo--the Goat--and his grotesque coterie. Llosa depicts Trujillo as a villain of Shakespearean proportions. He is a preening, macho dandy who equates his own virility with the nation's health. An admirer of Hitler "not for his ideas but for the way he wore a uniform" (fittingly he equips his secret police force with a fleet of black Volkswagen Beetles), Trujillo even has his own Himler in Colonel Abbes Garcia, a vicious torturer with a predilection for the occult.
As the novel edges toward Trujillo's inevitable murder, Urania's story gets a bit lost in the action; the remaining narratives however, are rarely short of mesmerizing. Trujillo's death unleashes a new order, but not the one expected by the conspirators. Enslaved by the soul of the dead chief, neither they nor the Trujillo family--who embark on a hideous spree of bloody reprisals--are able to fill the void. Llosa has them all skillfully outmaneuvered by the puppet-president Joaquín Belaguer, a former poet who is the very antithesis of the machismo Goat. Savage, touching, and bleakly funny, this compelling book gives an all too human face to one of Latin America's most destructive tyrants. --Travis Elborough, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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A Fish in the Waterby Mario Vargas LlosaISBN 0140248900 (0-14-024890-0)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Fish in the Water'Book summary:In 1990, Mario Vargas Llosa decided to run for the presidency of his native Peru, campaigning on a platform of economic reform and stringent counterterrorism against the Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path. His campaign against (and ultimate defeat by) Alberto Fujimori was the stuff of international headlines, transforming an eminent writer into a politician of world stature. A Fish in the Water is Vargas Llosa's disarming and deeply absorbing response to that profoundly heady - and troubling - experience. This is a twofold book: a memoir of the formation of one of Latin America's most celebrated artists, from his birth in Arequipa in 1936 to his departure for Europe to make his career as a writer, and, in alternating chapters, the story of Vargas Llosa's organization of the reform movement which culminated in his bid for the presidency. In this richly personal work, Vargas Llosa evokes the experiences which gave rise to his fiction, including his stay at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy, which was the basis of his first book, The Time of the Hero, and his desperate attempts to marry while still a minor, as recounted in hilarious detail in Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. In parallel, he describes the social, literary, and political influences that led him to enter the political arena as a crusader for modern democracy and a free-market economy. Offering an unexpectedly intimate look at how fact becomes fiction and at the formation of a courageous and original politician and thinker. A Fish in the Water reveals Mario Vargas Llosa as a world figure whose real story is just beginning. [via]
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The Green Houseby Mario Vargas Llosa , Gregory RabassaISBN 0060732792 (0-06-073279-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Green House'Book summary:Mario Vargas Llosa's classic early novel takes place in a Peruvian town, situated between desert and jungle, which is torn by boredom and lust. Don Anselmo, a stranger in a black coat, builds a brothel on the outskirts of the town while he charms its innocent people, setting in motion a chain reaction with extraordinary consequences.
This brothel, called the Green House, brings together the innocent and the corrupt: Bonificia, a young Indian girl saved by the nuns only to become a prostitute; Father Garcia, struggling for the church; and four best friends drawn to both excitement and escape.
The conflicting forces that haunt the Green House evoke a world balanced between savagery and civilization -- and one that is cursed by not being able to discern between the two.
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In Praise of the Stepmotherby Mario Vargas Llosa , Helen LaneISBN 0312421303 (0-312-42130-3)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Praise of the Stepmother'Book summary:Mario Vargas Llosa, the internationally acclaimed author of The Storyteller, adds his own finely-tuned poetic polish to this erotic exploration of carnality in one family. He turns the proverbial romantic triangle on its ear to create this New York Times bestselling erotic novel. French flaps and six full-color pages of classic artworks. [via]
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The Language of Passion: Selected Commentaryby Mario Vargas Llosa , Natasha WimmerISBN 0312422547 (0-312-42254-7)
Softcover, Picador
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Language of Passion: Selected Commentary'Book summary:Internationally acclaimed novelist Mario Vargas Llosa has contributed a biweekly column to Spains 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[via]
Latin American democracy, the role of religion in civic life, and the future of globalization. But Vargas Llosas influence is hardly limited to politics. In some of the liveliest critical writing of his career, he makes a pilgrimage to Bob Marleys shrine in Jamaica, celebrates the sexual abandon of Carnaval in Rio, and examines the legacies of Vermeer, Bertolt Brecht, Frida Kahlo, and Octavio Paz, among others.More editions of The Language of Passion: Selected Commentary:
Letters to a Young Novelistby Mario Vargas Llosa , Natasha WimmerISBN 0312421729 (0-312-42172-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Making Waves: Essaysby Mario Vargas Llosa , John KingISBN 0140275568 (0-14-027556-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Notebooks of Don Rigobertoby Mario Vargas Llosa , Edith GrossmanISBN 0140283595 (0-14-028359-5)
Softcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto'Book summary:"It is not the world of cunning cattle that you and I are part of which interests me and brings me joy or suffering, but the myriad of beings animated by imagination, desire and artistic skill, the beings present in the paintings, books, and prints that I have collected with the patience and love of many years."
Near the beginning of The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto, the title character writes these words to the architect designing his new home, thus setting the theme for this slightly fantastical, wholly erotic novel that celebrates the ascendancy of imagination over real life. Readers familiar with Vargas Llosa's work will recognize Don Rigoberto from the earlier In Praise of the Stepmother, in which the author first introduced the middle-aged insurance executive, his beautiful second wife, Lucrecia, and his preternaturally sensual son, Alfonsito. In that book, the pubescent "Fonsito" manages to seduce his stepmother and then writes an essay about the experience that he lets his father read. The novel ends with Lucrecia's expulsion from the household and the revelation that Fonsito had orchestrated the whole thing from the beginning for reasons of his own. Now, in The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto Vargas Llosa picks up where he left off, with Alfonsito's reappearance on the doorstep of Lucrecia's new home. Once again, this "Beelzebub, a viper with the face of an angel" has a hidden agenda--this time, apparently, to reunite his father and stepmother.
As in its predecessor, The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto filters erotic passions and desires through art and artifice; Alfonsito uses the life and work of painter Egon Schiele to seduce his stepmother's imagination if not her body; Don Rigoberto and Lucrecia fan the flames of sexual passion through elaborate fantasies that they present as reality. It is almost as if no act, thought, or feeling can be real unless it has first existed in the imagination; even as Rigoberto and Lucrecia make love on their first night back together he informs her that, in his notebooks, she "'has gone to bed with many people all year.' 'I want details,' Dona Lucrecia gasp[s], speaking with difficulty. 'All of them, even the tiniest. What I did, what I ate, what was done to me.'"
The novel is the literary equivalent of matryoshki, those nests of dolls within dolls that Russian toymakers made to enthrall young children. Egon Schiele's life story, Lucrecia's erotic encounters, Rigoberto's notebooks, the 20 anonymous letters that reunite Rigoberto and his wife--all unfold, stories within stories and fantasies within fiction, until Vargas Llosa arrives, at last, at his happy ending, with a twist. The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto is erotic without being graphic, so fantastical that even the seduction of a 40-year-old matron by a pubescent boy reads more like myth (think Cupid and Psyche) than today's headlines. Vargas Llosa's cool, wry prose helps to elevate the hijinks above the merely prurient, making this fable of love, art, and manipulation a pleasure without guilt. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third Worldby Mario Vargas Llosa , Edith GrossmanISBN 0060160209 (0-06-016020-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Storytellerby Mario Vargas Llosa , Helen LaneISBN 0312420285 (0-312-42028-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Storyteller'Book summary:In a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer happens upon an exhibition of photographs from the Amazon jungle. As he stares at a picture of a tribal storyteller who holds a circle of Machiguenga Indians entranced, he is overcome by the eerie sense that he knows this man, that the storyteller is not an Indian at all, but an old school friend. [via]
Time of the Heroby Mario Vargas Llosa , L. KempISBN 0140032797 (0-14-003279-7)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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The War of the End of the Worldby Mario Vargas LlosaISBN 0140262601 (0-14-026260-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of the End of the World'Book summary:Deep within the remote backlands of 19th-century Brazil sits Canudosa libertarian paradise. Home of prostitutes, bandits, beggars, Canudos embodies the revolutionary spirit in its purest and most apocalyptic form. In one of his most brilliant and tragic novels, Mario Vargas Llosa creates an unforgettable tale of passion, idealism, adventure, and man's struggle to be free. [via]
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The Way to Paradise: A Novelby Mario Vargas LlosaISBN 0312424035 (0-312-42403-5)
Softcover, Picador
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way to Paradise: A Novel'Book summary:A New York Times Notable Book
Flora Tristán, the illegitimate child of a wealthy Peruvian father and French mother, grows up in poverty and journeys to Peru to demand her inheritance. On her return in 1844, she makes her name as a champion of the downtrodden, touring the French countryside to recruit members for her Workers' Union.
In 1891, Flora's grandson, struggling painter and stubborn visionary Paul Gauguin, abandons his wife and five children for life in the South Seas, where his dreams of paradise are poisoned by syphilis, the stifling forces of French colonialism, and a chronic lack of funds, though he has his pick of teenage Tahitian lovers and paints some of his greatest works.[via]
Flora died before her grandson was born, but their travels and obsessions unfold side by side in this double portrait, a rare study in passion and ambition, as well as the obstinate pursuit of greatness in the face of illness and death.More editions of The Way to Paradise: A Novel:
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Who Killed Palomino Molero?by Mario Vargas LlosaISBN 0020225709 (0-02-022570-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Who Killed Palomino Molero?'Book summary:This wonderful detective novel is set in Peru in the 1950s. Near an Air Force base in the northern desert, a young airman is found murdered. Lieutenant Silva and Officer Lituma investigate. Lacking a squad car, they have to cajole a local cabbie into taking them to the scene of the crime. Their superiors are indifferent; the commanding officer of the air base stands in their way; but Silva and Lituma are determined to uncover the truth.[via]
Who Killed Palomino Molero, an entertaining and brilliantly plotted mystery, takes up one of Vargas Llosas characteristic themes: the despair at how hard it is to be an honest man in a corrupt society.More editions of Who Killed Palomino Molero?:
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Los Cuadernos De Don Rigoberto / The Notebooks of Don Rigobertoby Mario Vargas LlosaISBN 0140274723 (0-14-027472-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Los Cuadernos De Don Rigoberto / The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto'Book summary:Set in Lima, Peru this is the story of a bizarre love triangle whose participants may be the creations of Don Rigoberto's fertile imagination. The central characters are Rigoberto himself, a dull insurance executive by day, a pornogapher and sexual enthusiast by night; Lucrecia, his second wife; and Alfonso, his angel-faced young son. Husband and wife have been separated for a year because of a sexual encounter between the boy and his stepmother. Rigoberto misses Lucrecia desperately--filling notebooks with his memories, fantasies, and letters he will never send. Meanwhile, Alfonso visits Lucrecia, attempting to both win her love and reunite her with his father. A companion volume to In Praise of the Stepmother--where we were first introduced to these passionate characters--The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto is a compelling mix of fantasy and reality that always keep the reader guessing.[via]More editions of Los Cuadernos De Don Rigoberto / The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto:
El regreso del perfecto idiota latinoamericano/The Return of the Perfect Latin American Idiotby Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Plinio Mendoza, Mario Vargas LlosaISBN 0307391515 (0-307-39151-5)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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