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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Explores the tragicomic relationship between two artists and their material. While each feeds off the other, the narratives of Mario are nourished by the life around him, those of Camacho by the fantasies engendered by his disintegrating mind.
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in Peru during the 1950s, "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter" is the story of an 18 year old student who falls for a 32 year old divorcee. Mario, an aspiring writer, works at a radio station that broadcasts, live each day, up to a half-dozen short-run soap operas. At the same time that the author meet ...Show more
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: Faber Modern Classics by Mario Vargas Llosa
$19.99 AUD
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
Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In an isolated community in the Peruvian Andes, a series of mysterious disappearances has occurred. Army corporal Lituma and his deputy Tomas believe the Shining Path guerrillas are responsible, but the towns people have their own ideas about the forces that claimed the bodies of the missing men. This r ...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
$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
Harsh Times by Mario Vargas Llosa
$22.99 AUD
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
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: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
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
Notes on the Death of Culture - Essays on Spectacle and Society by Mario VARGAS LLOSA
$35.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
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 Culture is an examination and indictment of this transformation - penned by none other than the Nobel ...Show more
The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa (tr from Spanish Edith Grossman)
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as 'Lily' in Llama 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 loves her next in Paris, where she appears as the enchanting 'Co ...Show more