Mario Vargas Llosa
Author
Series
Punto de lectura volume 4/1
Language
Español
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Description
La ciudad y los perros, traducida a mas de treinta lenguas, esta ambientada en el Colegio Militar Leoncio Prado. Los protagonistas de la novela, un grupo de jovenes que se educan en una disciplina militar implacable y violenta, aprenden a sobrevivir en un ambiente en el que estan muy arraigados los prejuicios raciales y las diferencias entre clases sociales y economicas; donde todos se muestran como no son en realidad y la transgresion de las normas...
2) Harsh times
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"The true story of Guatemala's political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell it"--
Guatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA topples the government of Jacobo Árbenz. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changes the development of Latin America: the accusation by the Eisenhower administration that Árbenz encouraged the spread of Soviet Communism...
Author
Series
Punto de lectura volume 3/5
Language
Español
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Description
Novel about the last year in the dictatorship of Leonidas Trujillo in the Dominican Republic.
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Series
Language
Español
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"Richardo ve cumplido, a una edad muy temprana, el sueño que en su Lima natal alimentó desde que tenía uso de razón: vivir en París. Pero el reencuentro con un amor de adolescencia lo cambiará todo. La joven, inconformista, aventurera, pragmática e inquieta, lo arrastrará fuera del pequeño mundo de sus ambiciones. Testigo de épocas convulsas y florecientes en ciudades como Londres, París, Tokio o Madrid, ambos personajes verán sus vidas...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
"La perfecci©đn absoluta no parece de este mundo, ni siquiera en obras art©Ưsticas de creadores que, como Borges, estuvieron m©Łs cerca de lograrla. Esta colecci©đn de art©Ưculos, conferencias, rese©łas y notas da testimonio de m©Łs de medio siglo de lecturas de un autor que ha sido para m©Ư, desde que le©Ư sus primeros cuentos y ensayos en la Lima de los a©łos cincuenta, una fuente inagotable de placer intelectual. Muchas veces...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From its origins, the liberal doctrine has represented the most advanced forms of democratic culture, and it is what has most defended us from the inextinguishable "call of the tribe." This book hopes to make a modest contribution to that indispensable task. In The Call of the Tribe, 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, "tireless in his quest...
Author
Language
English
Description
A successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru.
"The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to intersect: neat, endearing Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in Piura, Peru, who finds himself the victim of blackmail; and Ismael Carrera, a successful owner of an insurance company in Lima, who cooks up a plan to avenge...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and demands that he invest in the magazine. Enrique refuses, and the next day the pictures are on the front page. Meanwhile, Enrique's wife is in the midst of a passionate and secret affair with the wife of Enrique's lawyer and...
14) Tune in tomorrow
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Pedro, an eccentric writer hired by a television station to liven up its ratings, stirs up all sorts of trouble. He develops a number of schemes to help a young writer in the young man's pursuit of his Aunt Julia. Too late the young writer and Aunt Julia find that Pedro is using their affair to liven up the plot of his soap opera!
17) The bad girl
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a coy teenager as "Lily" in Lima in 1950, when she flits into his life one summer and disappears again without explanation. He loves her still when she reappears as a revolutionary in 1960s Paris, then later as Mrs. Richardson, the wife of a wealthy Englishman, and again as the mistress of a sinister Japanese businessman in Tokyo. However poorly she treats him, he is a doomed to worship...