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Three Plays

The Young Lady from Tacna, Kathie and the Hippopotamus, La Chunga

Mario Vargas Llosa; Translated by David Graham-Young Hill and Wang

In these three plays—each introduced by the author—Mario Vargas Llosa, the internationally acclaimed novelist and a cultural and political figure in Peru,...

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Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	In Praise of the Stepmother A Novel Mario Vargas Llosa;Translated by Helen Lane Picador 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,...

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Letters to a Young Novelist

Mario Vargas Llosa; Translated by Natasha Wimmer Picador

“Under the persiflage of Letters to a Young Novelist, Vargas Llosa gives us his take on writers and writing [which] gives new insight into the creative process.”—Mark Axelrod, The Review of Contemporary Fiction

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The Language of Passion

Selected Commentary

Mario Vargas Llosa; Translated by Natasha Wimmer Picador

"These capsule essays touch on all things human—and divine—mostly social, cultural ,and political. And because Vargas Llosa is a highbrow literary name, it's comforting to verify that his interests also encompass, say, Rio's carnival . . . the figure of Bob Marley, or—even if only a passing reference—the magic of David Copperfield."—Orlando Alomá, The Miami Herald

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The Way to Paradise

A Novel

Mario Vargas Llosa; Translated by Natasha Wimmer Picador

"Through his characters, Vargas Llosa [captures] much of the liberationist spirit of the 19th century, the great romantic desire to escape the cramping bonds of tradition, whatever the cost. His stylistic virtuosity with authorial voice commands admiration."—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

A Novel

Mario Vargas Llosa; Translated by Helen R. Lane Picador

"Funny, extravagant . . . A wonderfully comic novel almost unbelievably rich in character, place and event."—Los Angeles Times Book Review

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Death in the Andes

A Novel

Mario Vargas Llosa; Translated by Edith Grossman Picador

"Ancient and modern horrors mingle in Vargas Llosa's somber yet oddly zestful novel, the most direct examination the Peruvian writer has made of his nation's complex political problems since The War of the End of the World and The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta . . . vigorous storytelling and intriguingly complex structure—past and present mingle in the intertwined narratives of various characters—offer ample satisfaction."—Publishers Weekly

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The War of the End of the World

Mario Vargas Llosa Picador

“A magnificent storyteller . . . [Vargas Llosa] gives us a cast of unforgettable characters swept up in the upheaval . . . This is the work of a master, coming into full realization of his powers.”—The Boston Sunday Globe

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The Bad Girl

A Novel

Mario Vargas Llosa; Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman Picador

"Spans decades and continents—and in the process, with a deftness that boreders on literary sleight of hand, bridges the personal and the universal."—San Francisco Chronicle

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Captain Pantoja and the Special Service

A Novel

Mario Vargas LLosa Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

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...

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The Cubs and Other Stories

Mario Vargas Llosa Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

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...

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The Perpetual Orgy

Mario Vargas Llosa Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

The book's first section is a tete-a-tete with Emma Bovary; the second traces the gestation and birth of the novel, as well as Flaubert's method, his mania for...

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Making Waves

Essays

Mario Vargas Llosa; Edited and translated by John King Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Spanning thirty years of writing, Making Waves traces the development of the Nobel Prize–winning author Mario Vargas Llosa’s thinking on politics and culture,...

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Touchstones

Essays on Literature, Art, and Politics

Mario Vargas Llosa; Selected, edited, and translated by John King Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

One of Latin Am erica’s most garlanded novelists—and the recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature—Mario Vargas Llosa is also an acute and wide-ranging...

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Gringo Nightmare

A Young American Framed for Murder in Nicaragua

Eric Volz St. Martin's Griffin

Featured on Fox News and Univision and selected as Larry King’s Book of the Week, this is the harrowing true story of an American held in a Nicaraguan prison...

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Red Heat

Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean

Alex von Tunzelmann Henry Holt and Co.

"…a mesmerizing, Conradian tale where the truth is almost too dark to bear. A remarkably gripping popular history."—Kirkus Reviews

"Von Tunzelmann’s diligent work will widen the eyes of Cold War buffs."—Booklist

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Amexica

War Along the Borderline

Ed Vulliamy Picador

“Vulliamy, with a mix of irony and pathos, writes like a latter-day Graham Greene . . . Like all good travel writing, Amexica is vivid, colorful, and exotic, filled with striking vignettes and larger-than-life characters.”—Tamar Jacoby, The New York Times Book Review

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The Haitian Trilogy

Plays: Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours, and The Haytian Earth

Derek Walcott Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

“The Nobel poet laureate attempts to recreate West Indian history on a canvas as large and mythic as Shakespeare’s War of the Roses. It’s a heroic, monumental undertaking—and not surprisingly, St. Lucia-born Walcott summons the ghost of Shakespeare in his epigraphs, echoes and metaphors. Walcott’s lines weave in and out of blank verse as easily as an old man walks in and out of memory.”—Cynthia Haven, San Francisco Chronicle

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The Arkansas Testament

Derek Walcott Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Walcott's eight collection of poems is divided into two parts -- "There," verse evoking the poet's native Carribbean, and "Elsewhere."

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The Prodigal

A Poem

Derek Walcott Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"Derek Walcott's virtues as a poet are extraordinary . . . He could turn his attention on anything at all and make it live with a reality beyond its own; through his fearless language it becomes not only its acquired life, but the real one, the one that lasts."—James Dickey, The New York Times Book Review

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Selected Poems

Derek Walcott; Edited by Edward Baugh Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"No poet rivals Mr. Walcott in humor, emotional depth, lavish inventiveness in language or in the ability to express the thoughts of his characters and compel the reader to follow the swift mutations of ideas and images in their minds . . . [His poetry] makes us realize that history, all of it, belongs to us."—The New York Times

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White Egrets

Poems

Derek Walcott Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"Characters come fully and movingly to life in Walcott's hands; black and white are treated with equal understanding and sympathy as they go their complicated ways . . . Wit and verbal play . . . enliven every page."—Bernard Knox, The New York Review of Books

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Trade Paperback : $18.99 Buy	Catch a Fire The Life of Bob Marley Timothy White Holt Paperbacks "White has a deep appreciation for reggae's immediacy, hypnotic power, and contradictions . . . An exhaustively researched labor of love."—Chicago Sun-Times

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Why the Cocks Fight

Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola

Michele Wucker Hill and Wang

"A complex exploration of the cultural divide between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Wucker . . . weaves together five centuries of tragic conflict with a subtle picture of the island today."—Patrick Markee, The New York Times Book Review

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