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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: Faber Modern Classics by Mario Vargas Llosa
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Faber Modern Classics Ser.
Mario 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. The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirtee ...Show more
Discreet Hero by Mario VARGAS LLOSA
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
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
Harsh Times by Mario Vargas Llosa
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning master of fiction - the true story of Guatemala's political turmoil of the 1950s. Guatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changed the development of Latin America ...Show more
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation by Michael Chabon; Ayelet Waldman ; Colum Mccann ; Colm Toibin ; Dave Eggers ; Geraldine Brooks ; Jacqueline Woodson ; Mario Vargas Llosa
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Thien, Eimear McBride, Taiye Selasi and editors Michael Cha ...Show more
Notes on the Death of Culture - Essays on Spectacle and Society by Mario VARGAS LLOSA
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
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 indictment of this transformation - penned by none other than the Nobel ...Show more
The Discreet Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
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
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
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 Neighborhood by Mario Vargas Llosa
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | 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: General | 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
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