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The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta

A Novel

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa; Translated by Alfred MacAdam

The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta

The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta

$22.00

About This Book

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
is an astute psychological portrait of a modern revolutionary and a searching account...

Page Count
320
On Sale
06/24/1998

Book Details

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
is an astute psychological portrait of a modern revolutionary and a searching account of an old friend's struggle to understand him. First published in English in 1986, the novel probes the long and checkered history of radical politics in Latin America.

Imprint Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN

9780374525552

In The News

“With [The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta] Mario Vargas Llosa . . . has replaced Gabriel García Márquez as the South American novelist for gringos to catch up on.” —John Updike, The New Yorker

“A glittering trompe l'oeil of a novel about the revolutionary temperament--and the nature of fiction.” —The New York Times

“Mario Vargas Llosa [is] one of the master storytellers of our time.” —Denis Lynn Heyck, Chicago Tribune Book World

“In a way, this novel about an obscure Peruvian revolutionary is a perfect introduction to Vargas Llosa.” —Terrence Rafferty, The Nation

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The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta

The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta

$22.00