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The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta

Alfred MacAdam

The Peru of the near future is in the throes of an insurgency. A revolutionary army is taking on the failing government and the US Marines, and the cities have become vast garbage-strewn slums. In the midst of this, the narrator attempts to reconstruct the story of his friend, a modern revolutionary.

In The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, Mario Vargas Llosa offers not just a brilliant psychological portrait, but also a searing account of Latin America's political scene.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : SEP 14, 1987
  • Imprint : Faber Fiction
  • Page Extent : 320
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780571149049
  • Price : INR 1,199
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Alfred MacAdam

Professor MacAdam's area of specialization is twentieth-century Latin-American narrative, a subject on which he has published three books and numerous articles. He is also a translator of Latin-American fiction and has translated novels by Julio Cort?zar, Reinaldo Arenas, Alejo Carpentier, Jos? Donoso, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, Juan Carlos Onetti, and Osvaldo Soriano. From 1984 to 2004, MacAdam was the editor of Review: Latin American Literature and Arts, a publication of the Americas Society. This biannual magazine presents work by Latin-American writers not yet known to English-speaking audiences as well as unknown texts by already established writers.

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