It's always a big day when a new book from a former Nobel Prize winner arrives. Peruvian won the prize in 2010 and we noticed your interest as his sales rose dramatically in our stores after that announcement. In particular Death in the Andes, The Story Teller, The War at the End of the World, and The Way to Paradise proved popular.
Now , long regarded as one of Latin America's most vibrant and provocative literary voices, is back with his new novel The Dream of the Celt. In it he tells the story of the Irish nationalist Roger Casement who was hanged by the British government for treason in 1916. pushes the boundaries of the historical novel as he tackles the story of this controversial man.
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A subtle and enlightening novel about a neglected human rights pioneer by the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British ...
In a remote Andean village, three men have disappeared. Peruvian Army corporal Lituma and his deputy Tomás have been dispatched to investigate, and to guard the town from the Shining Path...
At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer happens upon a photograph of a tribal storyteller deep in the jungles of the Amazon. He is overcome with the eerie sense that he knows th...
Deep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place wh...
