Way to Paradise (Vargas Llosa Mario)(Paperback / softback)

Way to Paradise (Vargas Llosa Mario)(Paperback / softback)

Flora died before her grandson was born, but their travels and obsessions unravel side by side in this absorbing novel. A rare study of passion, ambition and the determined pursuit of greatness in the face of illness, death and conservative forces, The Way to Paradise shows Mario Vargas Llosa at

Conversation in the Cathedral (Llosa Mario Vargas)(Paperback)

Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the master storytellers of our time. -- Chicago Tribune Book WorldFrom one of the world's most critically acclaimed authors comes a haunting novel about power, corruption and the complex search for identityConversation in The Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during

Tiempos recios - Mario Vargas Llosa

LA NUEVA NOVELA DE MARIO VARGAS LLOSA, PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURAUna historia de conspiraciones políticas e intereses encontrados durante la Guerra Fría. Una mentira que pasó por verdad y cambió el devenir de América Latina.«?Era la historia esa fantástica tergiversación de la

The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa (Kristal Efrain)(Paperback)

One of the major novelists in world literature over the last five decades, Mario Vargas Llosa (b. 1936) is also one of Latin America's most engaging public intellectuals, a critic of art and culture, and a playwright of distinction. This Companion's chapters chart the development of Vargas Llosa's

Rozhovor u Katedrály - Mario Vargas Llosa

Román z roku 1969 představuje vrchol Vargas Llosova úsilí o „totální román“. Rámec tvoří rozhovor třicátníka Santiaga Zavaly, novináře frustrovaného vlastním nenaplněným životem i situací ve zkorumpovaném Peru 50. let, s bývalým rodinným šoférem mulatem Ambrosiem. Do

Neighborhood (Vargas Llosa Mario)(Paperback / softback)

When a high-profile businessman is blackmailed by a notorious magazine editor, his comfortable life is threatened by the salacious expose. Then the editor is found murdered, and the two couples have no choice but to descend into the murkiest depths of Peruvian society, while the magazine's staff

Storyteller (Vargas Llosa Mario)(Paperback / softback)

At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer comes across a photograph of a tribal storyteller deep in the Amazon

Discreet Hero (Vargas Llosa Mario)(Paperback / softback)

Ismael escapes to Europe with his new bride, leaving Rigoberto to face the twins' threats, and their claims that he connived with a scheming woman to rob an old man of his

Death in the Andes (Vargas Llosa Mario)(Paperback / softback)

In an isolated community in the Peruvian Andes, a series of mysterious disappearances has occurred. As the investigation progresses, Tomas entertains Lituma with the surreal tale of a precarious love affair. Death in the Andes is both a fascinating detective novel and an insightful political

Conversation in the Cathedral (Vargas Llosa Mario)(Paperback / softback)

The conversation flows between two individuals, Santiago and Ambrosia, who talk of their tormented lives and of the degradation and frustration that has taken over their town. In this groundbreaking novel, Mario Vargas Llosa explores the mental and moral mechanisms that govern power and the

Bad Girl (Vargas Llosa Mario)(Paperback / softback)

When the beautiful teenage Lily arrives in Lima in 1950, fifteen-year-old Ricardo falls instantly in love with her. A decade later, now living in Paris, Ricardo falls in love with a woman named Comrade Arlette, who is incredibly similar to Lily but refuses to acknowledge that she is the same

Time of the Hero (Vargas Llosa Mario)(Paperback / softback)

In the author's native Peru, this powerful social satire so outraged the authorities that a thousand copies were publicly burned. The novel is set in Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima, where a group of cadets attempt to break out of the vicious round of sadistic ragging, military discipline,

Volání kmene - Mario Vargas Llosa

Nezdá se to, ale jedná se o knihu autobiografickou. Popisuje můj vlastní intelektuální a politický příběh, cestu vedoucí od marxismem a sartrovským existencialismem načichlého mládí až k liberalismu ve zralém věku přes přehodnocení demokracie, k němuž mi pomohly knihy

Who Killed Palomino Molero? (Vargas Llosa Mario)(Paperback / softback)

A young airman is found brutally murdered near an Air Force base in the northern desert. Lieutenant Silva and Officer Lituma set out to investigate, hitching rides on chicken trucks and cajoling a cab driver into taking them to the crime

Feast of the Goat (Vargas Llosa Mario)(Paperback / softback)

'The Feast of the Goat will stand out as the great emblematic novel of Latin America's twentieth century and removes One Hundred Years of Solitude of that title.' Times Literary Supplement Urania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic after a lifelong self-imposed exile. Once

Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (Vargas Llosa Mario)(Paperback / softback)

In this delightful farce, the prim and proper Captain Pantoja is sent to Peru's Amazon frontier on a secret Army mission - he must find females for the amorous

Tiempos Recios / Fierce Times (Llosa Mario Vargas)(Paperback)

Guatemala, 1954. El golpe militar perpetrado por Carlos Castillo Armas y auspiciado por Estados Unidos a trav s de la CIA derroca el gobierno de Jacobo rbenz. Detr s de este acto violento se encuentra una mentira que pas por verdad y que cambi el devenir de Am rica Latina: la acusaci n por parte

Tetička Julie a zneuznaný génius - Mario Vargas Llosa

V románu Tetička Julie a zneuznaný génius se autor po letech strávených v cizině a po řadě uměleckých úspěchů vrací k tomu, co bylo, když pracoval v redakci rozhlasové stanice v Limě a pokoušel se psát velkou literaturu a když se jako osmnáctiletý zamiloval do své mnohem

The Perpetual Orgy (Llosa Mario Vargas)(Paperback)

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The book's first section is a tete-a-tete with Emma Bovary; the second traces the gestation and birth of the novel, as well as Flaubert's method, his mania for documentation, and the novel's literary sources; the third situates it in literary history. Vargas

The Book of the Teatro Real (Llosa Mario Vargas)(Paperback)

In honor of its bicentennial, this richly illustrated, large-format book tells the story of Madrid's famous opera house, the Teatro Real, including a foreword by Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa and various texts examining the history, architecture and influence of the building and the events

Pětinároží - Mario Vargas Llosa, Anežka Charvátová

Ve svém zatím posledním románu Náměstí Cinco esquinas (šp. 2017) se peruánský nositel Nobelovy ceny Mario Vargas Llosa vrací do rodné země a svým nejlepším stylem vykresluje devadesátá léta, kdy za vlády prezidenta Fujimoriho žili Peruánci v hrůze z terorismu maoistické

Chvála macechy - Mario Vargas Llosa

Kniha Chvála macechy:Erotický román Chvála macechy (Elogio de la madrastra, 1988) líčí manželské peripetie dobře situovaného páru smyslné doni Lucrecie a pedanta dona Rigoberta, posedlého tělesnou hygienou, milovníka erotických výtvarných děl. V jedné dějové linii se

This Poison Will Remain (Vargas Fred)(Paperback / softback)

Suburban Gardens (Way Twigs)(Paperback / softback)

England is a nation of gardeners and most of us garden in suburbia. A private paradise encompassed by privet the suburban garden contains in its small compass the hopes and dreams of millions of gardeners past and present. From Victorian shrubberies to the 1980s 'Good Life' these small plots reveal