Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Peru in 1936. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." He also won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor. His many works of fiction and nonfiction include The Feast of the Goat, In Praise of the Stepmother, and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, all published by FSG. He died in Lima at age 89 in 2025.
"Funny, extravagant . . . A wonderfully comic novel almost unbelievably rich in character, place and event." --Los Angeles Times Book Review "Uproarious entertainment . . . For sheer wit, imagination, and high style, this soap opera of love can't be beat." --The Christian Science Monitor "A bedazzlement of entertainment." --Time "One of South America's finest contemporary writers." --The Times (London)
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