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 hero....

Set in Peru during the 1950s, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is the story of an 18 year old student who falls for a 32 year old divorcee. Mario, an aspiring writer, works at a radio station that broadcasts, live each day, up to a half-dozen short-run soap operas....

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 Trujillo\"s reign....

When a high-profile businessman is blackmailed by a notorious magazine editor, his comfortable life is threatened by the salacious expose. While attempting to field the scandal, the businessman\"s wife, seeking comfort, begins a secret affair with the wife of his best friend....

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: that those in power encouraged the spread of Soviet communism in the Americas....

Novela ejemplar en la historia del boom latinoamericano, La Casa Verde es una experiencia ineludible para todo aquel que quiera conocer en profundidad la obra narrativa del Premio Nobel de Literatura 2010 y Principe de Asturias de las Letras, Mario Vargas Llosa. ?Cual es el secreto que encierra La casa verde?...

\\\"Conversacion en La Catedral\\\" es algo mas que un hito en el derrotero literario del Premio Nobel de Literatura Mario Vargas Llosa: es un punto de referencia insoslayable, un dato fijo en la historia de la literatura actual. Zavalita y el zambo Ambrosio conversan en La Catedral....

Translated into 30 languages, this is a basic book in contemporary Latin American fiction. Through the brutality prevailing in a military school in Peru, the author attacks military education and an outdated concept of manleness....

Mario Vargas Llosa crea una intensa novela policial donde el suspense у la tension recorren toda la historia. En un escenario dominado por la corrupcion, у donde los prejuicios у desigualdades conforman la realidad social del pais, la verdad acaba convertida en verdades diversas que se confunden la una con la otra en un alucinantejuego de espejos....

Dйcada de los setenta en una pequeсa ciudad de California. \"Bean\" Holladay tiene doce aсos y su hermana Liz quince cuando su madre las abandona \"para encontrarse a sн misma\" y triunfar en la mъsica....

The Way to Paradise interweaves the story of the painter Paul Gauguin with that of his grandmother, Flora Tristan. In 1844, Flora embarked on a tour of France to campaign for workers\" and women\"s rights. In 1891, her grandson set sail for Tahiti, determined to escape civilisation and seek out inspiration to paint his primitive masterpieces....

In a remote Andean village, three men have disappeared. Peruvian Army corporal Lituma and his deputy Tomás have been dispatched to investigate, and to guard the town from the Shining Path guerrillas they assume are responsible. But the......

A tragic narrative by one of Latin America\'s leading novelists. Four key backlist titles, reissued with new jackets to coincide with the publication of \"The Notebooks Of Don Rigoberto\"....

Los jefesy Los cachorros sirvieron como antecedente, como precalentamiento para la construccion de las obras maestras de Vargas Llosa....

Book DescriptionA century passed between the birth of Flora Tristan and the death of her grandson, the great painter Paul Gauguin. They never met, but both dreamed, each in their own way, with a better world....