{"title":"Fiction--World Literature--Peru","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"aunt-julia-and-the-scriptwriter","title":"Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMario 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirteen years older, with whom he begins a secret affair. The second is a manic radio scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho, whose racy, vituperative soap operas are holding the city's listeners in thrall. Pedro chooses young Marito to be his confidant as he slowly goes insane. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInterweaving the story of Marito's life with the ever-more-fevered tales of Pedro Camacho, Vargas Llosa's novel is hilarious, mischievous, and masterful, a classic named one of the best books of the year by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0312427247\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780312427245\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Llosa, Mario Vargas, Lane, Helen R., N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Oct 2007)","offer_id":45657945702597,"sku":"9780312427245","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780312427245.jpg?v=1768896356"},{"product_id":"the-feast-of-the-goat","title":"The Feast of the Goat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Feast of the Goat\u003c\/i\u003e, this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' (\u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e), Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the birth of a terrible democracy, giving voice to the historical Trujillo and the victims, both innocent and complicit, drawn into his deadly orbit.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHaunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. In Trujillo's gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become a way of life. But Trujillo's grasp is slipping. There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution already underway that will have bloody consequences of its own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A fierce, edgy and enthralling book ... Mr. Vargas Llosa has pushed the boundaries of the traditional historical novel, and in doing so has written a book of harrowing power and lasting resonance.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0312420277\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780312420277\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Llosa, Mario Vargas, Grossman, Edith, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Nov 2002)","offer_id":45659111424197,"sku":"9780312420277","price":20.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780312420277.jpg?v=1768905998"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/collections\/fiction-world-literature-peru.oembed","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}