The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta A Novel [Paperback]

The Real Life of Alejandro Maytais an astute psychological portrait of a modern revolutionary and a searching account of an old friend's struggle to understand him. First published in English in 1986, the novel probes the long and checkered history of radical politics in Latin America.

With [The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta] Mario Vargas Llosa . . . has replaced Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez as the South American novelist for gringos to catch up on. John Updike, The New Yorker

A glitteringtrompe l'oeilof a novel about the revolutionary temperament--and the nature of fiction. The New York Times

Mario Vargas Llosa [is] one of the master storytellers of our time. Denis Lynn Heyck, Chicago Tribune Book World

In a way, this novel about an obscure Peruvian revolutionary is a perfect introduction to Vargas Llosa. Terrence Rafferty, The Nation

Mario Vargas Llosais Peru's foremost author and the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1994 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor, and in 1995 he won the Jerusalem Prize. His many distinguished works includeThe Storyteller,The Feast of the Goat,Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter,Death in the Andes,In Praise of the Stepmother,The Bad Girl,Conversation in the Cathedral,The Way to Paradise, andThe War of the End of the World. He lives in London.