The Peru of the near future is in the throes of an insurgency. A revolutionary army is taking on the failing government and the US Marines, and the cities have become vast garbage-strewn slums. In the midst of this, the narrator attempts to reconstruct the story of his friend, a modern revolutionary.
In The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, Mario Vargas Llosa offers not just a brilliant psychological portrait, but also a searing account of Latin America's political scene.
| ISBN: | 9780571149049 |
| Publication date: | 14th September 1987 |
| Author: | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 309 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |