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      The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta

      by Mario Vargas Llosa
      Published
      Jun 1986
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      From the Nobel Prize-winning author. "In a way, this novel about an obscure Peruvian revolutionary is a perfect introduction to Vargas Llosa." —Terrence Rafferty, The Nation

      The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta is 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—at a turning point in Mario Vargas Llosa's career—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 García Márquez as the South American novelist for gringos to catch up on." —John Updike, The New Yorker
      "A glittering trompe l'oeil of 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

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      Nov 1986 Vintage ISBN 0394747763
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      First Edition Jun 1986 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0374247773
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      Jan 1986 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0374247765
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      Mar 2011 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 1429922079
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