BOOKS by Mario Vargas Llosa

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1	The feast of the goat more books like this by Mario Vargas Llosa add to wishlist When Urania Cabal returns home to the Dominican Republic, she is swept up in her memories of the days of Trujillo's dictatorship, when her father was in the midst of it all as secretary of state. She recalls the horrors of the regime, and also the conspiracies and the rumbling of a revolution that would ultimately bring Trujillo down in a wave of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Death in the Andes more books like this by Mario Vargas Llosa add to wishlist Corporal Lituma and his young adjutant investigate the sinister disappearance of three men in Andian mountains. The duo find themselves caught up in forgotten mountain communities and rituals--including a local couple performing cannibalistic sacrifices with a strange similarity to the Dionysian rituals of ancient Greece. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.11! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter more books like this by Mario Vargas Llosa add to wishlist After her divorce, Julia returns to Peru in search of a mate who can support her high living. Unfortunately, she falls in love with her dirt-poor nephew, an aspiring writer. The scandal of their relationship coincides with the rise of a hot new scriptwriter of racy radio soap operas who blends the worlds of fiction and fantasy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.69! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	La Fiesta del Chivo more books like this by Mario Vargas Llosa add to wishlist If the devil exists, he is manifested as the protagonist of this novel. La Fiesta del Chivo is based on the last days and assassination of one of the most tyrannical, bloodthirsty dictators of Latin American, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. A passionate story combining anger and bewilderment; it is unthinkable to accept the brutal happenings as reality; ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.45! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Bad Girl more books like this by Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman (Translator) add to wishlist Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager in Lima in 1950, and next in Paris, where she appears as the enchanting Comrade Arlette. In Llosas beguiling new novel, the strange bedfellows of good and bad turn out not to be what they appear. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.82! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The notebooks of Don Rigoberto more books like this by Mario Vargas Llosa add to wishlist The story of a teenager's fixation on his beautiful stepmother, written by the celebrated Latin American novelist. Set in Lima, it describes the middle-aged Don Rigoberto's shock at discovering his second wife Lucrecia's indiscretions with his son, Alfonso. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Feast of the Goat, the by Mario Vargas Llosa add to wishlist Urania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic after a lifelong self-imposed exile. Urania's own story alternates with the powerful climax of dictator Rafael Trujillo's reign. In 1961, Trujillo's decadent inner circle - which includes Urania's soon-to-be disgraced father - enjoys the luxuries of privilege while the rest of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.18!
8	Captain Pantoja and the special service by Mario Vargas Llosa add to wishlist In this military farce, Captain Pantajo is an overly efficient quartermaster who is asked to supply the isolated recruits in the Amazon frontier with females to quench their amorous longings. While somewhat dismayed by the task, he is nevertheless so successful in creating his "special service" that it becomes far more renowned than he or his ... see all copies from $7.69! new only from $15.46! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition more books like this by Cesar Vallejo, Clayton Eshleman (Translator), Mario Vargas Llosa (Foreword by) add to wishlist This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) makes available to English speakers one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world poetry. Handsomely presented in facing-page Spanish and English, this volume, translated by National Book Award winner Clayton Eshleman, includes the groundbreaking ... see all copies from $24.95! new only from $55.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	La Tia Julia y el Escribidor by Mario Vargas Llosa add to wishlist Ya en el titulo de esta novela de Mario Vargas LLosa, publicada en 1977, se recoge la doble historia en que se vertebra su argumento: por un lado, la relacion amorosa del joven escritor Varguitas con una mujer de su familia mayor que el, la tia Julia; y por otro, la desaforada presencia del folletinista Pedro Camacho en la misma emisora de radio ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.12! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Quien Mato a Palomino Molero more books like this by Mario Vargas Llosa add to wishlist An intensely woven detective story where tension and suspense trap the reader from the first to the last page. In a stage dominated by corruption, where prejudice and disparity constitute a countrys social reality, truth becomes a confusing array of images in a hallucinatory game of mirrors. Through an ambiance that dazzles and captures our ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $14.53! \| SVS
12 view cover	The war of the end of the world more books like this by Mario Vargas Llosa add to wishlist A tragic narrative by one of Latin America's leading novelists. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The storyteller more books like this by Mario Vargas Llosa add to wishlist Unravelling the life and career of the Peruvian Jew, Saul Zurates, this book tells the story of his transformation from conscience-stricken liberal, obsessed with the survival of the pre-modern peoples of the Amazon, into a member of the tribe itself, their chronicler and finally their voice. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.27! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	La Casa Verde more books like this by Mario Vargas Llosa add to wishlist One of the most significant and passionate novels by this acclaimed author. The story develops in different times, looking at reality from different angles that come together with complex narrative techniques and a fluid and precise style. see all copies from $2.98! new only from $10.85! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Storyteller more books like this by Helen Lane (Translator), Mario Vargas Llosa add to wishlist 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 and that the storyteller is not an Indian at all, but an old school ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The time of the hero more books like this by Mario Vargas Llosa add to wishlist A powerful social satire which outraged the authorities of the author's native Peru, where 1000 copies were publicly burned. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $9.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The perpetual orgy more books like this by Mario Vargas Llosa add to wishlist Mario Vargas Llosa writes about his 30-year love affair with Madame Bovary, the heroine of Flaubert's novel. see all copies from $4.99! new only from $11.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	A fish in the water : a memoir more books like this by Mario Vargas Llosa add to wishlist Llosa gives his account of his ultimately unsuccessful attempt to run his country, Peru and of his own childhood and career. Llosa was born in 1936 and was one of Latin America's most important novelists. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.46! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The cubs and other stories more books like this by Mario Vargas Llosa add to wishlist A collection of Vargas Llosa's short fiction whose domain is the Peru of male youth and machismo, where life's dramas play themselves out on the soccer field, on the dance floor and on street corners. The author has published many novels, including "The Storyteller". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The War of the End of the World more books like this by Mario Vargas Llosa, Helen R Lane (Translator) add to wishlist Deep within the remote backlands of 19th-century Brazil sits Canudosa libertarian paradise. Home of prostitutes, bandits, beggars, it 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 ... see all copies from $3.94! new only from $3.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Conversacion en la Catedral more books like this by Mario Vargas Llosa add to wishlist Conversacion en La Catedral no es una novela historica. Sus personajes, las historias que esos cuentan, los fragmentos que van encajando, conforman la descripcion minuciosa de un envilecimiento colectivo, el repaso de todos los caminos que hacen desembocar a un pueblo entero en la frustracion. Conversacion en La Catedral es algo mas que un hito en ... see all copies from $4.98! new only from $9.88! \| SVS
22 view cover	In praise of the stepmother more books like this by Mario Vargas Llosa add to wishlist An erotic novel in which, little by little, the shadow of perversion darkens the extraordinary happiness and harmony of the characters. The mysterious nature of happiness and the corrupting power of innocence are the book's main themes. The author also wrote "The Storyteller". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Cuadernos de Don Rigoberto, Los more books like this by Mario Vargas Llosa add to wishlist Set in Lima, the novel tells of a love triangle whose participants may be the fictional creations of Don Rigoberto: Rigoberto himself, by day a gray insurance executive, by night a pornographer and sexual enthusiast; his second wife, Lucrecia; and his young son, Alfonso. Husband and wife are estranged because of a sexual encounter between Lucrecia ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| SVS
24 view cover	La Ciudad y los Perros more books like this by Mario Vargas Llosa add to wishlist Uno de los libros basicos para emprender el estudio de la literatura hispanoamericana de la segunda mitad de este siglo es La ciudad y los perros de Mario Vargas Llosa, publicada en 1962 (Premio Biblioteca Breve y Premio de la Critica). Con esta novela Vargas Llosa alcanza el reconocimiento internacional. En ella demuestra ya una madurez literaria ... see all copies from $4.60! new only from $6.00!
25	The Time of the Hero more books like this by Lysander Kemp (Translator), Mario Vargas Llosa add to wishlist see all copies from $2.49! signed copies \| first editions

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