A Fish in the Water: A Memoir

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 Fujimori in the Peruvian presidential elections

This is an ex-lib copy in excellent condition, with only a small library label on the back and two modest library ink stamps on the front end paper No other marks or damage, and may well be unread