A Fish in the Water : A Memoir by Mario Vargas Llosa - 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… Read More

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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