The Cubs and Other Stories (Paperback)

Mario Vargas Llosa (author)

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Paperback 160 Pages / Published: 23/08/1999

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The Cubs and Other Stories is Mario Vargas Llosa's only volume of short fiction available in English. Vargas Llosa's domain is the Peru of male youth and machismo, where life's dramas play themselves out on the soccer field, on the dance floor and on street corners. The title work, The Cubs, tells the story of the carefree boyhood of PP Cuellar and his friends, and of PP's bizarre accident and tragic coming of age. In a candid and perceptive foreword to this collection of early writing, Vargas Llosa provides background to the volume and a unique glimpse into the mind of the artist.

Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571162123
Number of pages: 160
Weight: 133 g
Dimensions: 198 x 126 x 11 mm
Edition: Main

Mario Vargas Llosa

Born in Arequipa Peru’s second largest city in 1936, author, playwright, politician and essayist Mario Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America’s most prestigious and prolific writers. Vargas Llosa spent his childhood variously in in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and Piura - a city in the north of Peru - before moving to Lima as a young man. His university education coincided with the rise of the dictator Manuel Odría and his observation of that period influenced the early novels which brought him to public attention, including The Time of the Hero, The Green House and Conversation in the Cathedral. Often deeply personal, the influence of his own family life can be seen in novels such as Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and In Praise of the Stepmother.

A writer with an inexhaustible creativity, his more recent works include: The Feast of the Goat, The Way to Paradise, The Bad Girl, The Dream of the Celt, The Discreet Hero and The Neighbourhood.

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