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Peru’s Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel Literature Prize
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Isabel Allende: The Woman’s Voice in Latin American Literature (Films for the Humanities & Sciences) $169.95 Isabel Allende, the first Latin American woman to bestride the world literary stage, describes the emotions that inform her fiction and the events that set them in motion. Niece of the deposed (and presumably assassinated) Chilean Marxist president Salvador Allende, she fled Chile in terror and blossomed in exile to write of the love, hate, and revenge that shape the lives of people she knew, or d… |
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics) $5.94 This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary mate- rial, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder.”On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714,the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipi-tated five travelers into the gulf below.” With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the… |
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El Sueno del Celta / The Dream of the Celt (Spanish Edition) $8.00 “La historia de Roger Casement se apaga y renace despues de su muerte. Sus restos fueron enterrados sin lapida, ni cruz, ni iniciales. Mario Vargas Llosa restituye la tesitura de un personaje asombroso que vivio entre 1864 y 1916. Fue diplomatico britanico, denuncio grandes crimenes que se cometieron en el Congo y en la Amazonia en nombre del colonialismo, y milito activamente en el nacionalismo i… |
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La tia Julia y el escribidor/ Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition) $11.19 This comic novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, which merges reality with fantasy, is about the world of radio soap operas and the pitfalls of forbidden passion. Sophisticated, divorced Aunt Julia is looking for a new mate who can support her in a lavish lifestyle. Instead, she falls into an affair with her nephew, shocking her family and community. Description in Spanish: ”El genero novelesco no ha … |
