Vargas Llosa Mario: The Time of the Hero
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: A powerful social satire which outraged the authorities of the author's native Peru, where 1000 copies were publicly burned.
Vargas Llosa Mario: The Dream of the Celt
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: As The Dream of the Celt opens, it is the summer of 1916 and Roger Casement awaits the hangman in London's Pentonville Prison. Dublin lies in ruins after the disastrous Easter Rising led by his comrades of the Irish Volunteers. He has been caught after landing from a German submarine. For the past year he has attempted to raise an Irish brigade from prisoners of war to fight alongside the Germans…
Vargas Llosa Mario: Death in the Andes
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Set in an isolated, run down community in the Peruvian Andes, Vargas Llosa's riveting novel tells the story of a series of mysterious disappearances involving the Shining Path guerrillas and a local couple performing cannibalistic sacrifices with strange similarities to the Dionysian rituals of ancient Greece. Part-detective novel and part-political allegory, it offers a panoramic view of…
Vargas Llosa Mario: The Bad Girl
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as 'Lily' in Lima in 1950, where she claims to be from Chile but vanishes the moment her claim is exposed as fiction. He loves her next in Paris as 'Comrade Arlette', an activist en route to Cuba, an icy, remote lover who denies knowing anything about the Lily of years gone by. Whoever the bad girl turns up as and…
Vargas Llosa Mario: Los Cuadernos de Don Rigoberto
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Set in Lima, Peru this is the story of a bizarre love triangle whose participants may be the creations of Don Rigoberto's fertile imagination. The central characters are Rigoberto himself, a dull insurance executive by day, a pornogapher and sexual enthusiast by night; Lucrecia, his second wife; and Alfonso, his angel-faced young son. Husband and wife have been separated for a year because of a…
Vargas Llosa Mario: The War of the End of the World
Скачать книгу (размер 2 890 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 568) Аннотация: The War of the End of the World is one of the great modern historical novels. Inspired by a real episode in Brazilian history, Mario Vargas Llosa tells the story of an apocalyptic movement, led by a mysterious prophet, in which prostitutes, beggars and bandits establish Canudos, a new republic, a libertarian paradise.
Vargas Llosa Mario: In Praise of the Stepmother
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Mario Vargas Llosa, the internationally acclaimed author of The Storyteller, adds his own finely-tuned poetic polish to this erotic exploration of carnality in one family. He turns the proverbial romantic triangle on its ear to create this New York Times bestselling erotic novel. French flaps and six full-color pages of classic artworks.
Vargas Llosa Mario: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Explores the tragicomic relationship between two artists and their material. While each feeds off the other, the narratives of Mario are nourished by the life around him, those of Camacho by the fantasies engendered by his disintegrating mind. The author's other works include The Storyteller.