A tale of two cities―Piura and Lima―rocked by scandal, and the disintegrating bonds of loyalty between the generationsNobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa's newest novel follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to ...

A painstakingly researched and lively novel about a neglected human rights pioneer by the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had ...

When Urania Cabal returns home to the Dominican Republic, she is swept up in her memories of the days of Trujillo's dictatorship, when her father was in the midst of it all as secretary of state. She recalls the horrors of the regime,...

Mario Vargas Llosa's classic autobiographical novel about a forbidden love affair, a manic radio scriptwriter, and the hilarious trials of an aspiring fiction writer. Mario Vargas Llosa's masterful, multilayered novel is set in the Li...

p align="center"A Haunting tale of power, corruption,br / and the complex search for identity/b/Conversation in The Cathedral/b takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odría. Over beers and a sea of f...

The true story of Guatemala’s political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell it Guatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA topples the democratic gove...

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

In a remote Andean village, three men have disappeared. Peruvian Army corporal Lituma and his deputy Tomás have been dispatched to investigate, and to guard the town from the Shining Path guerrillas, whom they presume are responsible...

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 in...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2007'Splendid, suspenseful, and irresistible . . . A contemporary love story that explores the mores of the urban 1960s--and 70s and 80s.'--The New York Times Book ReviewRicardo Somocurcio is in love ...

The only collection of short fiction by Vargas Llosa available in English. These seven stories portray the often tragic and cruel world of adolescence on the soccer fields, on the dance floors, and on the street corners of rural Peru.

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 aw...

Recounts the nineteenth-century stories of civil rights campaigner Flora Tristan and Paul Gauguin, the artist grandson who was born after her death, in a parallel tale that follows Flora's struggles with class imbalances and her grand...

One of Latin America's most garlanded novelists—and winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature—Mario Vargas Llosa is also an acute and wide-ranging cultural critic and acerbic political commentator. Touchstones collects Vargas L...

This wonderful detective novel is set in Peru in the 1950s. Near an Air Force base in the northern desert, a young airman is found murdered. Lieutenant Silva and Officer Lituma investigate. Lacking a squad car, they have to cajole a l...