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A fish in the water :a memoir
In 1990, Mario Vargas Llosa decided to run for the presidency of his native Peru, campaigning on a platform of economic reform and stringent counterterrorism against the Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path. His campaign against (and ultimate defeat by) Alberto Fujimori was the stuff of international h...
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| Iaith: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus, Giroux,
1994.
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| Rhifyn: | 1st ed. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Vargas Llosa, Mario, | |
| 240 | 1 | 0 | |a Pez en el agua. |l English |
| 245 | 1 | 2 | |a A fish in the water :a memoir |c /Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated by Helen Lane. |
| 250 | |a 1st ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Farrar, Straus, Giroux, |c 1994. | ||
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| 300 | |a 532 p. ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 520 | |a In 1990, Mario Vargas Llosa decided to run for the presidency of his native Peru, campaigning on a platform of economic reform and stringent counterterrorism against the Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path. His campaign against (and ultimate defeat by) Alberto Fujimori was the stuff of international headlines, transforming an eminent writer into a politician of world stature. A Fish in the Water is Vargas Llosa's disarming and deeply absorbing response to that profoundly heady - and troubling - experience. | ||
| 520 | 8 | |a In parallel, he describes the social, literary, and political influences that led him to enter the political arena as a crusader for modern democracy and a free-market economy. Offering an unexpectedly intimate look at how fact becomes fiction and at the formation of a courageous and original politician and thinker. A Fish in the Water reveals Mario Vargas Llosa as a world figure whose real story is just beginning. | |
| 520 | 8 | |a In this richly personal work, Vargas Llosa evokes the experiences which gave rise to his fiction, including his stay at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy, which was the basis of his first book, The Time of the Hero, and his desperate attempts to marry while still a minor, as recounted in hilarious detail in Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. | |
| 520 | 8 | |a This is a twofold book: a memoir of the formation of one of Latin America's most celebrated artists, from his birth in Arequipa in 1936 to his departure for Europe to make his career as a writer, and, in alternating chapters, the story of Vargas Llosa's organization of the reform movement which culminated in his bid for the presidency. | |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Vargas Llosa, Mario, |d 1936- |
| 650 | 0 | |a Authors, Peruvian |y 20th century |v Biography. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Politicians |z Peru |v Biography. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Peru |x Politics and government |y 1980- | |
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