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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: Faber Modern Classics by Mario Vargas Llosa
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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
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
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
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: Non-Fiction
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: Non-Fiction
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
The Call of the Tribe by Mario Vargas Llosa
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Category: Non-Fiction
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
The Neighborhood by Mario Vargas Llosa
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When a high-profile businessman is blackmailed by a notorious magazine editor, his comfortable life is threatened by the salacious exposé. While attempting to field the scandal, the businessman's wife, seeking comfort, begins a secret affair with the wife of his best friend. Then the editor is found mur ...Show more
The Neighbourhood by Mario Vargas Llosa
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A thrilling tale of desire and Peruvian corruption from the world-renowned Nobel Laureate. From the Nobel Laureate comes a politically charged detective novel weaving through the underbelly of Peruvian privilege. In the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt years of Alberto Fujimori's presidenc ...Show more
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