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• The Call of the Tribe

  Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-

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  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, "tireless in his quest to probe the nature of the human animal"…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The War of the End of the World

  Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-

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  Deep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Harsh Times

  Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-

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  Guatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA topples the government of Jacobo Árbenz. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changes the development of Latin…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Discreet Hero

  Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-

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  Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa's novel, The Discreet Hero , follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to intersect: neat, endearing Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in Piura, Peru, who finds himself the victim of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Neighborhood

  a Novel

  Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-

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  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 presidency, two wealthy couples of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Notes on the Death of Culture

  Essays on Spectacle and Society

  Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-

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  A provocative essay collection that finds the Nobel laureate taking on the decline of intellectual life.

• The Dream of the Celt

  Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-

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  In The Dream of the Celt , Mario Vargas Llosa, who has long been regarded as one of Latin America's most vibrant, provocative, and necessary literary voices--a fact confirmed when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Feast of the Goat

  Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-

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  It is 1961. The Dominican Republic languishes under economic sanctions; the Catholic church spurs its clergy against the government; from its highest ranks down, the country is arrested in bone-chilling fear. InThe Feast of the GoatVargas…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Green House

  a Novel

  Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-

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  Vargas Llosa's classic early novel takes place in Puira, a Peruvian town situated between desert and jungle, and which is torn by boredom and lust. Don Anselmo, a stranger in a black coat, builds a brothel on the outskirts of the town…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bad Girl

  Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-

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  Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as "Lily" in Lima in 1950, when she arrives one summer out of the blue, claiming to be from Chile but vanishing the moment her claim is exposed as fiction. He…Read moreRead more of this annotation