The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta - Hardcover

Mario Vargas Llosa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374247765 ISBN 13: 9780374247768

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1986

Synopsis

Vargas Llosa's haunting work, set in Lima, tells the story of Cuban-backed radicals and their struggle against a crumbling military establishment.

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Review

A milestone in Latin American fiction. (Observer)

Novel of the year ... A brilliant portrait of a hopeless Peruvian revolutionary, it also happens to be technically breathtaking. (The Times)

Tension is ... tightened to the point where one reads on at a galloping pace ... The scope, size and treatment of the book mark it out as another major South American success. (Daily Telegraph)

Llosa's feeling for the pain of his country is as powerful as ever but the more moving for being elegant and elaborate, even cool, in its expression ... A masterly and moving novel. (New Statesman)

An excellent and courageous novel ... Vargas Llosa deserves his place among the best Latin American writers. (New Society)

A terrific novel. (The Times)

In The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, Mario Vargas Llosa has created a glittering trompe l'oeil of a novel about the revolutionary temperament - and the nature of fiction. (Michiko Kakutani New York Times)

Exciting and moving fiction. (The Atlantic)

Book Description

The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta by Mario Vargas Llosa is another stunning work from the Peruvian novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, author of The Discreet Hero, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and The Feast of the Goat.

Edition details

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374247765
• ISBN 13: 9780374247768
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320