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Mario Vargas Llosa - The Cubs and Other Stories - 9780571162123 - KKD0010097
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The Cubs and Other Stories

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Description for The Cubs and Other Stories Paperback. A collection of Vargas Llosa's short fiction whose 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 author has published many novels, including "The Storyteller". Translator(s): Kolovakos, Gregory; Christ, Ronald J. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 133. Good copy with some shelf wear, yellowing of pages

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571162123
SKU
KKD0010097
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Peru in 1936. He is the author of some of the last half-century's most important novels, including The War of the End of the World, The Feast of the Goat, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and Conversation in the Cathedral. In 2010 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gregory Kolovakos, was a ... Read more

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