The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Publish date: 05/01/1998
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"A glittering . . . novel about the revolutionary temperament--and the nature of fiction . . . . The backdrop is Mr. Vargas Llosa's native Peru; the setting, the near future, in which the country has become a battleground for the major world powers. . . . It is here, amid the garbage-heaped slums of Lima, that Mr. Vargas Llosa's narrator . . . embarks upon a project that he hopes will illuminate the problems of contemporary Peru . . . ".--THE NEW YORK TIMES.
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