{"title":"Books by Mario Vargas Llosa","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780571365692","title":"Harsh Times","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE NEW NOVEL FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A wildly enjoyable book; the 85-year-old Vargas Llosa is as sharp and mordantly funny as ever.\" \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGuatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changed the development of Latin America: that those in power encouraged the spread of Soviet communism in the Americas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mario Vargas Llosa has written a drama on a world stage, in which some persecutors end up as victims of the very plot they helped construct. Ironic and sensual, provocative and redemptive, \u003ci\u003eHarsh Times\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of international conspiracies and conflicting interests in the time of the Cold War, the echoes of which are still felt today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43128896913586,"sku":"9780571365692","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571365692_3ea3e18a-41f8-41fc-8363-f8bd920b1800.jpg?v=1786014922"},{"product_id":"9780571173204","title":"The Time of the Hero","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the \u003ci\u003eTelegraph'\u003c\/i\u003es 'Ten Best Latin American Novels of all Time' \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Time of the Hero\u003c\/b\u003e has been acclaimed by critics around the world as one of the outstanding Spanish novels of recent decades. In the author's native Peru, this powerful social satire so outraged the authorities that a thousand copies were publicly burned.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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, confinement and boredom. But their pranks set off a cycle of betrayal, murder and revenge which jeopardizes the entire military hierarchy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A modern subversive classic.' \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A work of undeniable power and skill.' \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201797062834,"sku":"9780571173204","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571173204.jpg?v=1786013401"},{"product_id":"9780571141357","title":"In Praise of the Stepmother","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Praise of the Stepmother\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of Don Rigoberto, his second wife, Lucrecia, and his son, Alfonso. Their family life together seems to be a happy one. Rigoberto, an insurance company manager, spends his time preening himself for his wife and collecting erotic art. But while Lucrecia is devoted to him, she has her own needs, and soon finds herself the object of young Alfonso's attention.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith meticulous observation and seductive skill, Mario Vargas Llosa explores the mysterious nature of happiness. Little by little, the harmony of his characters is darkened by the shadow of perversion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003ci\u003eIn Praise of the Stepmother\u003c\/i\u003e, you might also like Mario Vargas Llosa's \u003ci\u003eThe Notebooks of Don Rigoberto\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56291247423861,"sku":"9780571141357","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571141357_43e77ce7-ffa7-49b5-9b76-cd9aff85f54d.jpg?v=1786013357"},{"product_id":"9780571288632","title":"The War of the End of the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe War of the End of the World\u003c\/b\u003e is one of the great modern historical novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56291345170805,"sku":"9780571288632","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571288632_a95921fc-7250-41c5-b4f3-565822e0f4c2.jpg?v=1786014539"},{"product_id":"9780571148189","title":"Captain Pantoja and the Special Service","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 recruits. Yet complications arise as word of his achievements starts to spread, and he finds himself battling against his wife, religious zealots and the Army that gave him the mission in the first place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough a wonderfully comic montage of letters, military documents, radio broadcasts, dream sequences and dialogue, Mario Vargas Llosa's \u003ci\u003eCaptain Pantoja and the Special Service\u003c\/i\u003e combines political satire with humour, morality with uproarious sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56291472408949,"sku":"9780571148189","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571148189_e259b122-d931-44b2-b1fc-e73f144180b1.jpg?v=1786013370"},{"product_id":"9780571352180","title":"The Call of the Tribe","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Call of the Tribe\u003c\/i\u003e, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that have shaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over the past fifty years. The Nobel Laureate maps out the liberal thinkers who helped him develop a new body of ideas after the great ideological traumas of his disenchantment with the Cuban Revolution and departure from the ideas of Jean-Paul Sartre, the author who most inspired Vargas Llosa in his youth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWriters like Adam Smith, Friedrich A. Hayek, Karl Popper and Isaiah Berlin helped the author navigate through these uneasy years of intellectual formation. They showed him another school of thought that placed the individual before the tribe, nation, class or party, and defended freedom of expression as a fundamental value for the exercise of democracy. \u003ci\u003eThe Call of the Tribe\u003c\/i\u003e documents Vargas Llosa’s engagement with their work and charts the evolution of his personal and philosophical ideology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMario Vargas Llosa is one of the world’s greatest living novelists, but, as Clive James wrote in \u003ci\u003eCultural Amnesia\u003c\/i\u003e, his 'true strength' is 'undoubtedly in the essay'.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56291545907573,"sku":"9780571352180","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571352180_bf42cf8f-3e13-4572-80b5-22b896eafa42.jpg?v=1786014617"},{"product_id":"9780571152162","title":"Who Killed Palomino Molero?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeru, 1950s. 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 scene. Without support from their superiors and with the base's commanding officer standing in their way, the case won't be easy. But they are determined to uncover the truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWho Killed Palomino Molero?\u003c\/i\u003e is an entertaining and brilliantly plotted detective novel. It takes up one of Mario Vargas Llosa's characteristic themes - how hard it is to be an honest man in a corrupt society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56291572187509,"sku":"9780571152162","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571152162_a81a1eba-4c5a-4ca5-a17b-5fdeec21d10f.jpg?v=1786013371"},{"product_id":"9780571275755","title":"The Dream of the Celt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Extraordinary.' \u003ci\u003eIndependent \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Gripping.' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Epic.' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A novel that engages head and heart from start to finish.' \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs \u003ci\u003eThe Dream of the Celt\u003c\/i\u003e 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 against the British Empire that awarded him a knighthood only a few years before. And now his petition for clemency is threatened by the leaking of his private diary and his secret life as a gay man...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMario Vargas Llosa, with his incomparable gift for powerful historical narrative, takes the reader on a journey back through a remarkable life dedicated to the exposure of barbaric treatment of indigenous peoples by European predators in the Congo and Amazonia. Casement was feted as one of the greatest humanitarians of the age. Now he is about to die ignominiously as a traitor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56291576086901,"sku":"9780571275755","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571275755_02746cc5-571c-413f-9fe0-7e02f580d243.jpg?v=1786014148"},{"product_id":"9780571376834","title":"Notes on the Death of Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘The most approachable and exhilarating Latin American writer of our times.’ Robert McCrum, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of distraction and entertainment. From one of the world’s great literary intelligences, \u003ci\u003eNotes on the Death of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is an examination and indictment of this transformation – an impassioned and essential critique of our time, with essays on the disappearance of eroticism, on culture politics and power, and the frivolity and banality of entertainment in Western culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56291612426613,"sku":"9780571376834","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571376834_66fab8ca-f1ef-4a57-9d1e-18a842aed3ff.jpg?v=1786015219"},{"product_id":"9780571310746","title":"The Discreet Hero","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFelicito Yanaque has raised himself from poverty to ownership of a trucking business. His two sons work for him. He receives a threatening letter demanding protection money. The police don't take him seriously, Felicito refuses to pay up and gets sucked into a nightmare. He becomes a reluctant public hero. Then his mistress is kidnapped, and matters become seriously complicated. And he finds that his troubles have begun very close to home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis fate is interwoven with the story of Rigoberto, a wealthy Lima insurance executive. His boss and old friend, Ismael, suddenly announces that he is marrying his housekeeper, a chola from Piura, to the consternation of his twin sons, a pair of brutal wasters. 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 fortune. Rigoberto is hounded by the press and TV. Meanwhile, his only son is having visions of a mysterious stranger who may or may not be the devil...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56291648143733,"sku":"9780571310746","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571310746_83737933-33f9-4ad9-b7f0-39e0f11a3ed1.jpg?v=1786014694"},{"product_id":"9780571333103","title":"The Neighborhood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen a high-profile businessman is blackmailed by a notorious magazine editor, his comfortable life is threatened by the salacious exposé. While attempting to field the scandal, the businessman’s wife, seeking comfort, begins a secret affair with the wife of his best friend. 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 embarks on its greatest revelation yet . . .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56291845374325,"sku":"9780571333103","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571333103_68494b96-ccbf-40fd-9757-a162095ea1b7.jpg?v=1786015065"},{"product_id":"9780571288601","title":"Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter","description":"Set in Peru during the 1950s, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is the story of an 18 year old student who falls for a 32 year old divorcee. Mario, an aspiring writer, works at a radio station that broadcasts, live each day, up to a half-dozen short-run soap operas. At the same time that the author meets his \"Aunt Julia\", the radio station, which had been buying scripts by weight from Cuba, hires a Bolivian scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho to write the serials. The novel chronicles the scriptwriter's rise and fall in tandem with the protagonist's affair.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56292178919797,"sku":"9780571288601","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571288601.jpg?v=1786014537"},{"product_id":"9780571220380","title":"The Way to Paradise","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Way to Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e interweaves the story of the painter Paul Gauguin with that of his grandmother, Flora Tristan. In 1844, Flora embarked on a tour of France to campaign for workers' and women's rights. In 1891, her grandson set sail for Tahiti, determined to escape civilisation and seek out inspiration to paint his primitive masterpieces. Flora died before her grandson was born, but their travels and obsessions unravel side by side in this absorbing novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA rare study of passion, ambition and the determined pursuit of greatness in the face of illness, death and conservative forces, \u003ci\u003eThe Way to Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e shows Mario Vargas Llosa at the peak of his powers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56292516266357,"sku":"9780571220380","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571220380_e60807bc-1aed-4dde-b740-b86fa12c8539.jpg?v=1786013624"},{"product_id":"9780571234110","title":"The Bad Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gripping and poignant novel about a mysterious romance from one of Latin America's greatest writers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Splendid, suspenseful and irresistible.' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Immensely moving.' \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the beautiful teenage Lily arrives in Lima in 1950, fifteen-year-old Ricardo falls instantly in love with her. She claims to be from Chile, but vanishes the moment it becomes clear that she has lied about both her name and her nationality. 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 person. For his whole life, Ricardo seems doomed to keep running into 'Lily', and to keep falling in love with her. Will he ever discover who she really is?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56292559520117,"sku":"9780571234110","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571234110_01cacdb1-ead4-4a35-8a1b-11fede5b1a42.jpg?v=1786013831"},{"product_id":"9780571288625","title":"The Feast of the Goat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe Feast of the Goat \u003c\/i\u003ewill stand out as the great emblematic novel of Latin America's twentieth century.' \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUrania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic after a lifelong self-imposed exile. Once she is back in her homeland, the elusive feeling of terror that has overshadowed her whole life suddenly takes shape. Urania's own story alternates with the powerful climax of dictator Rafael Trujillo's reign.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1961, Trujillo's decadent inner circle (which includes Urania's soon-to-be disgraced father) enjoys the luxuries of privilege while the rest of the nation lives in fear and deprivation. As Trujillo clings to power, a plot to push the Dominican Republic into the future is being formed. But after the murder of its hated dictator, the Goat, is carried out, the Dominican Republic is plunged into the nightmare of a bloody and uncertain aftermath. Now, thirty years later, Urania reveals how her own family was fatally wounded by the forces of history. In \u003ci\u003eThe Feast of the Goat\u003c\/i\u003e, Mario Vargas Llosa eloquently explores the effects of power and violence on the lives of both the oppressors and those they victimized.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56292618371445,"sku":"9780571288625","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571288625_b2dab8b2-d2c7-404a-8be1-f839488eab53.jpg?v=1786014538"},{"product_id":"9798985430219","title":"Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this issue of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiberties\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e: \u003cb\u003eKatherine C. Epstein \u003c\/b\u003e— Scholarship and the Future of Society; \u003cb\u003eMario Vargas Llosa\u003c\/b\u003e — A Forgotten Giant; \u003cb\u003eCass R. Sunstein\u003c\/b\u003e — A Constitutional Manifesto; \u003cb\u003eMark Edmundson \u003c\/b\u003e— The Trouble with Good People;\u003cb\u003e James Wolcott\u003c\/b\u003e — Billionaires on Parada; \u003cb\u003eElliot Ackerman\u003c\/b\u003e — The American Strategic Imagination; \u003cb\u003eMoshe Halbertal \u003c\/b\u003e— Two Concepts of God in Judaism and Beyond; \u003cb\u003eNoga Arikha \u003c\/b\u003e— Why Brain Science does not Have the Last Word; \u003cb\u003eCarlos Fraenkel\u003c\/b\u003e — Astronomy and Magic; \u003cb\u003eDaphne Merkin\u003c\/b\u003e — What You Never Knew About Sigmund Freud’s Wife; \u003cb\u003eJames R. Russell\u003c\/b\u003e — The Poet \u003cb\u003eMisak Medzarents\u003c\/b\u003e, and Two Poems; \u003cb\u003eRobert Alter \u003c\/b\u003e— What Flaubert Taught Agnon; \u003cb\u003eRachel Connolly\u003c\/b\u003e — The Unfunny Fate of Humor in Our Time; \u003cb\u003eHelen Vendler\u003c\/b\u003e — The Excitement of Discovering a New Poet; \u003cb\u003eCeleste Marcus\u003c\/b\u003e — Israel and The Struggle for Liberal Nationalism; \u003cb\u003eLeon Wieseltier\u003c\/b\u003e — How To Think Unhysterically About Change; and, poetry by \u003cb\u003eLeslie Williams\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eMisak Medzarents\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiberties \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003efeatures serious, independent, stylish, and controversial essays by significant writers and introduces the next generation of writers and poets to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of today’s culture and politics. Nobel Prize winners, leading op-ed writers, well-known non-fiction writers, rising talents, and poets from around the world. A new issue is published every quarter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere’s a reason why engaged citizens, cultural warriors, political leaders, opinion makers, and activists from across the cultural and political spectrum read and cherish \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiberties.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311504175477,"sku":"9798985430219","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9798985430219_fd44a82c-580e-429e-ad0e-5c428c8f435b.jpg?v=1786033125"},{"product_id":"conversation-in-the-cathedral","title":"Conversation in the Cathedral","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Vargas Llosa's masterwork.' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConversation in the Cathedral\u003c\/i\u003e takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of General Ordia. Suspicion, paranoia and blackmail have become part of life. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this groundbreaking novel, Mario Vargas Llosa explores the mental and moral mechanisms that govern power and the people behind it. It is about identity, the role of a citizen and how a lack of personal freedom can forever scar a nation and its people.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481707422069,"sku":"9780571168828","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571168828.jpg?v=1786090013"},{"product_id":"i-give-you-my-silence-1","title":"I Give You My Silence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A titan of Latin American literature.' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A powerhouse of literary energy.' William Boyd \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe final novel from Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, a playful and powerful love letter to Peruvian culture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne evening, Toño Azpilcueta, a Peruvian folk music journalist, witnesses a performance that changes his life. Toño becomes obsessed with hearing the virtuoso guitarist Lalo Molfino play again, but the next he hears, Molfino is dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo begins a quest to uncover the story of this unforgettable musician. Toño tracks down the priest who rescued Molfino from a rubbish heap and raised him, the musicians who played with him and the girl who claimed to love him. Toño decides that he will write a book that will not only immortalize the hero of the Creole waltz but will establish the music he loved as a unifying symbol for his fractured country. But the more Toño writes, the more he struggles to keep control of his story. As his savings dwindle and his paranoia rises, it becomes clear that writing a masterpiece is more complicated and consuming than he had realised.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57487725461877,"sku":"9780571392377","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571392377.jpg?v=1786354952"},{"product_id":"aunt-julia-and-the-scriptwriter-the-feast-of-the-goat","title":"Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The Feast of the Goat","description":null,"brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57679985148277,"sku":"9781841594460","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-mario-vargas-llosa.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}