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A glittering . . . novel about the revolutionary temperament-and the nature of fiction . . . . The backdrop is Mr. Vargas Llosa's native Peru; the setting, the near future, in which the country has become a battleground for the major world powers. . . . It is here, amid the garbage-heaped slums of Lima, that Mr. Vargas Llosa's narrator . . . embarks upon a project that he hopes will illuminate the problems of contemporary Peru . . . .-THE NEW YORK TIMES. | The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta by Mario Vargas Llosa, Paperback | Indigo Chapters