Thursday, October 7, 2010

One of my favorite authors just won the Nobel Prize for Literature

Mario Vargas Llosa



These are 2 of my favorites books

 The Feast of the Goat is about the horrid dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961.  It is a political thriller, told by a young girl returning to the Dominican Republic 30 years after the assassination.  She had fled as a 14 year old girl and she came back for answers.

The Storyteller is about a Peruvian man who is living in Europe and becomes fascinated with a remote tribe living in the Amazon.  It is a detective story that becomes so much more as Mr. Llosa comments on the implications and ethics of the developing region and the cultural impacts.

Viva Peru!

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