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The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as 'Lily' in Lima in 1950, where she claims to be from Chile but vanishes the moment her claim is exposed as fiction. He loves her next in Paris as 'Comrade Arlette', an activist en route to Cuba, an icy, remote lover who de ...Show more
The Call of the Tribe by Mario Vargas Llosa
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The intellectual autobiography of Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature-and an author who is 'tireless in his quest to probe the nature of the human animal' - Washington Post
The Discreet Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Felicito Yanaque has raised himself from poverty to ownership of a trucking business. His two sons work for him. He receives a threatening letter demanding protection money. The police don't take him seriously, Felicito refuses to pay up and gets sucked into a nightmare. He becomes a reluctant public he ...Show more
The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
As "The Dream of the Celt" opens, it is the summer of 1916 and Roger Casement awaits the hangman in London's Pentonville Prison. Dublin lies in ruins after the disastrous Easter Rising led by his comrades of the Irish Volunteers. He has been caught after landing from a German submarine. For the past yea ...Show more
The Dream of the Celt by Mario VARGAS LLOSA
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In an epic and moving novel spanning three continents, one of the world's greatest writers re-imagines the life of Roger Casement, the most controversial hero of Irish nationalism. As The Dream of the Celt opens, it is the summer of 1916 and Roger Casement awaits the hangman in London's Pentonville Pri ...Show more
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Urania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic after a lifelong self-imposed exile. Once she is back in her homeland, the elusive feeling of terror that has overshadowed her whole life suddenly takes shape. Urania's own story alternates with the powerful climax of dictator Rafael Tr ...Show more
The Feast of the Goat by Mario VARGAS LLOSA
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Urania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic after a lifelong self-imposed exile. Urania's own story alternates with the powerful climax of dictator Rafael Trujillo's reign. In 1961, Trujillo's decadent inner circle - which includes Urania's soon-to-be disgraced father - enjoys th ...Show more
The Feast of the Goat (Revolutionary Writing) by Mario Vargas Llosa
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Urania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic after a lifelong self-imposed exile. Once she is back in her homeland, the elusive feeling of terror that has overshadowed her whole life suddenly takes shape. Urania's own story alternates with the powerful climax of dictator Rafael Tr ...Show more
The Neighborhood by Mario Vargas Llosa
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
When a high-profile businessman is blackmailed by a notorious magazine editor, his comfortable life is threatened by the salacious exposé. While attempting to field the scandal, the businessman's wife, seeking comfort, begins a secret affair with the wife of his best friend. Then the editor is found mur ...Show more
The Neighbourhood by Mario Vargas Llosa
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A thrilling tale of desire and Peruvian corruption from the world-renowned Nobel Laureate. From the Nobel Laureate comes a politically charged detective novel weaving through the underbelly of Peruvian privilege. In the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt years of Alberto Fujimori's presidenc ...Show more
The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The "War of the End of the World" is one of the great modern historical novels. Inspired by a real episode in Brazilian history, Mario Vargas Llosa tells the story of an apocalyptic movement, led by a mysterious prophet, in which prostitutes, beggars and bandits establish Canudos, a new republic, a libe ...Show more
Touchstones by Mario Vargas Llosa
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
One of Latin America's greatest novelists, Mario Vargas Llosa is also a most acute and wide-ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. "Touchstones" includes his readings of major twentieth-century novels, from "Heart of Darkness" to "The Tin Drum and Herzog" and major works by Heming ...Show more