Mario Vargas Llosa
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Una novela del Premio Nobel de Literatura Mario Vargas Llosa.
«Él había pensado que, después de todo, un periodista puede ser a veces útil. "Y también peligroso", concluyó. Tuvo el presentimiento de que nada bueno saldría de esta visita.»
«La idea de esta novela comenzó con una imagen de dos señoras amigas que de pronto una noche, de una manera impensada para ambas, viven una situación erótica.Luego se fue convirtiendo en una historia...
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2022
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«La historia de Mayta es incomprensible separada de su tiempo y lugar, aquellos años en que, en América Latina, se hizo religión la idea, entre impacientes, aventureros e idealistas (yo fui uno de ellos), de que la libertad y la justicia se alcanzarían a tiros de fusil.»
Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa nos arrastra con su prosa hacia Mayta, protagonista de una intentona revolucionaria trotskista que en la novela acontece
...3) Harsh times
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2021.
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English
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"The true story of Guatemala's political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell it"--
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2019.
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Guatemala, 1954. El golpe militar perpetrado por Carlos Castillo Armas y auspiciado por Estados Unidos a travaes de la CIA derroca el gobierno de Jacobo aArbenz. Detraas de este acto violento se encuentra una mentira que pasao por verdad y que cambiao el devenir de Amaerica Latina: la acusaciaon por parte del gobierno de Eisenhower de que aArbenz alentaba la entrada del comunismo soviaetico en el continente. Tiempos recios es una historia de conspiraciones...
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Punto de lectura. Narrativa volume 4/5
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Español
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Novel about the last year in the dictatorship of Leonidas Trujillo in the Dominican Republic.
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2018.
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English
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One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and demands that he invest in the magazine. Enrique refuses, and the next day the pictures are on the front page. Meanwhile, Enrique's wife is in the midst of a passionate and secret affair with the wife of Enrique's lawyer and...
10) La casa verde
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2015.
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529 pages ; 19 cm.
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"La novela ocurre en dos lugares muy alejados entre sí, Piura, en el desierto del litoral peruano, y Santa María de Nieva, una factoría y misión religiosa perdida en el corazón de la Amazonía. Símbolo de la historia es la mítica casa de placer que don Anselmo, el forastero, erige en las afueras de Piura. La casa verde (1965) recibió al año siguiente de su publicación el Premio de la Crítica y, en 1967, el Premio Internacional de Literatura...
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2018.
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xxiii, 275 pages ; 22 cm
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"Throughout his career, the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa has grappled with the concept of Latin America on a global stage. Examining liberal claims and searching for cohesion, he continuously weighs the reality of the continent against the image it projects, and considers the political dangers and possibilities that face this diverse set of countries. Now this illuminating and versatile collection assembles these never-before-translated criticisms...
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Punto de lectura volume 4/13
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[2010]
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418 pages, 12 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm.
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Español
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1996.
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275 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"In this novel, simultaneous plot lines ranging from an investigation by Corporal Lituma of a mysterious disappearance, to his deputy's love affair with a prostitute, to an Andean community terrorized by Shining Path guerrillas, and the alternating first- and third-person narrators all obscure coherence. Grossman's lazy translation needlessly retains large doses of original Spanish lexicon. An introduction, maps, and a translator's note are badly...
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2023.
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276 pages ; 22 cm
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"From its origins, the liberal doctrine has represented the most advanced forms of democratic culture, and it is what has most defended us from the inextinguishable "call of the tribe." This book hopes to make a modest contribution to that indispensable task. In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that have shaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over the past fifty years. The Nobel laureate, "tireless in his quest...
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2002.
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404 pages ; 22 cm
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Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic--and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. In Trujillo's gaudy...
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2015.
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326 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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A successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru.
"The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to intersect: neat, endearing Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in Piura, Peru, who finds himself the victim of blackmail; and Ismael Carrera, a successful owner of an insurance company in Lima, who cooks up a plan to avenge...
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2013.
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383 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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"La novela cuenta la historia paralela de dos personajes: el ordenado y entrañable Felícito Yanaqué, un pequeño empresario de Piura que es extorsionado, e Ismael Carrera, un exitoso hombre de negocios, dueño de una aseguradora en Lima, quien urde una sorpresiva venganza contra sus dos hijos holgazanes que quisieron verlo muerto. Viejos conocidos del mundo vargallosiano aparecen en estas páginas: el sargento Lituma y los inconquistables, don...