Mario Vargas Llosa - Libros y biografía

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 Times "A compelling and propulsive...

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...

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 maps out the liberal thinkers...

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. Notes on the Death of...

This delightful farce opens as the prim and proper Captain Pantoja learns he is to be sent to Peru's Amazon frontier on a secret mission for the army-to provide females for the amorous recruits. Side-splitting...

The War of the End of the World is one of the great modern historical novels. Inspired by a real episode in Brazilian history, Mario Vargas Llosa tells the story of an apocalyptic movement, led by a mysterious...

Mario Vargas Llosa's A Fish in the Water is a twofold book: a memoir by one of Latin America's most celebrated writers, beginning with his birth in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru; and the story of his organization...

The Cubs and Other Stories is Mario Vargas Llosa's only volume of short fiction available in English. Vargas Llosa's domain is the Peru of male youth and machismo, where life's dramas play themselves...

Urania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic after a lifelong self-imposed exile. Once she is back in her homeland, the elusive feeling of terror that has overshadowed her whole...

In Who Killed Palomino Molero? Mario Vargas LLosa has turned to detective fiction. The setting is Peru in the 1950s. Near an air force base in the northern deserts, a young airman is found brutally tortured...

In this book, Vargas Llosa invites readers to enter into his confidence as he unravels six of his own novels and two other works of fundamental importance to him. Vargas Llosa's native Peru, the setting...

A visitor from Peru, happening upon an exhibition of photographs from the Amazon jungle in an obscure Florentine picture gallery, finds his attention drawn to a picture of a tribal storyteller seated...

Mario Vargas Llosa has been making waves in cultural and political spheres for over thirty years. Making Waves presents for the first time in English a collection of his essays, a journey through time,...

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...

'A comic novel on the grand scale written with tremendous confidence and verve. Mario, 18-year-old law student and radio news-editor, falls scandalously for his Aunt Julia, the 32-year-old divorced wife...

Set in an isolated, run down community in the Peruvian Andes, Vargas Llosa's riveting novel tells the story of a series of mysterious disappearances involving the Shining Path guerrillas and a local couple...

In 1844, Flora Tristan embarked on a tour of France to campaign for workers' and women's rights. In 1891, her grandson set sail for Tahiti, determined to escape civilisation and seek out inspiration to...

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...

From the Nobel Laureate comes a politically charged detective novel weaving through the underbelly of Peruvian privilege, translated by Edith Grossman. In the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt...

The Time of the Hero has been acclaimed by critics around the world as one of the outstanding Spanish novels of recent decades. In the author's native Peru, this powerful social satire so outraged the...

Don Rigoberto - a rather grey insurance executive by day, a dedicated pornographer and sexual enthusiast by night - misses Lucrecia, his estranged second wife. He desperately compensates for her absence...

Que de tours et de malices chez cette «vilaine fille», toujours et tant aimée par son ami Ricardo, le «bon garçon». Ils se rencontrent pour la première fois au début des années cinquante, en pleine adolescence,...

Le thème central de ce roman, conduit au rythme haletant des expéditions, est la dénonciation de la monstrueuse exploitation de l'homme par l’homme. Roger Casement (1864-1916) découvre l’injustice sociale...

Le 7 avril 1803 naît à Paris la militante féministe et ouvriériste Flora Tristan, fille d'un officier péruvien au service du Roi d'Espagne et d'une bourgeoise parisienne. Un siècle plus tard, le 8 mai...

"Le voyeurisme est le vice le plus universel qui soit. Vous le savez mieux que personne : nous voulons connaître les secrets et, de préférence, les secrets d'alcôve. Fourrer son nez dans l'intimité des...

Que vient chercher à Saint-Domingue cette jeune avocate new-yorkaise après tant d'années d'absence ? Les questions qu'Urania Cabral doit poser à son père mourant nous projettent dans le labyrinthe de...

Neste ensaio, Mario Vargas Llosa, prêmio Nobel de Literatura, apresenta as leituras que moldaram seu pensamento nos últimos cinquenta anos.O autor do prêmio Nobel selecionou os sete pensadores liberais...

Perdu dans les rues de Madrid, un vieil homme déambule à la recherche de son domicile. Ressassant les souvenirs d’un monde disparu, il imagine une ville future privée de musées, de librairies et de salles...

En 1950, le président du Guatemala, Jacobo Árbenz, jeune dirigeant libéral et progressiste, lance une réforme agraire pour partager les bénéfices de la culture de la banane avec l’ensemble de la population,...

À Piura, Felícito, patron d’une entreprise de transports, est l’objet de chantage et d’intimidations mafieuses. À Lima, Ismael, à la tête d'une compagnie d’assurances, est menacé par ses fils qui convoitent...