A Fish in the Water: A Memoir Tapa blanda - 2011

New York: Picador, 2011. First US paperback. Very Good+. Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa (born 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, is a Peruvian writer, journalist, essayist, college professor, and a former politician Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading writers of his generation Some critics consider him to have had a larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom In 2010 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat" A Fish in the Water, is his memoir, and covers two main periods of his life: the first comprising the years between 1946 and 1958, describes his childhood and the beginning of his writing career in Europe The second period covers his political involvement in later years culminating with his defeat against Alberto… Leer más

Picador, 2011-07-05. Paperback. Very Good. 1.5000 8.5000 5.6000. Remainder mark on page edges. Otherwise, very clean. No bends, rips, or markings inside or out.

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Picador, USA, 2011. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. 532 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Picador, USA, 2011. *** CONDITION: This book is in near fine condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: This work by the renowned Peruvian author allows us to glimpse into the key years of his youth until his candidacy for President of Peru. These are stark, unadorned truths revealed through his hypnotic and masterly prose. The strained relationship between the author and his harsh, violent father; the discovery of his calling as a writer as a means to oppose parental authoritarianism, the precocious bohemia, the hasty wedding with la tia Julia (aunt Julia) and the short, yet intense, political career of the writer. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9781250005779. Inventory No: 21050177.. 9781250005779

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