Enigmas; Fiction from Latin America; New Latin American fiction.(Books and Arts)(Bewildered by the news, readers in Latin America often turn to fiction to understand their countries' politics)(Review)
Economist (US), The, January, 2001
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LA FIESTA DEL CHIVO.
EL RESPLANDOR DE LA MADERA.
LA NOVIA OSCURA.
CIRCUS.
LOS IMPACIENTES.
AS JOURNALIST, novelist and politician, Mario Vargas Llosa has packed a lot into his 64 years. He has run for president in his native Peru; he has opposed the corrupt authoritarianism of its fugitive ex-leader, Alberto Fujimori; and he has written more than a dozen novels, almost all of them about this enigmatic country, from Piura to Lima and Iquitos, piecing together its classes and races in a jigsaw recreation.
But as a character in one of these fine books glumly ...
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