"Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the master storytellers of our time." -- Chicago Tribune From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature comes a haunting novel about power, corruption, and the complex search for identity. Conversation in The Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odr???a. Over beers and a sea of freely spoken words, the conversation flows between two individuals, Santiago and Ambrosia, who talk of their tormented lives and of the overall degradation and frustration ...
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"Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the master storytellers of our time." -- Chicago Tribune From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature comes a haunting novel about power, corruption, and the complex search for identity. Conversation in The Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odr???a. Over beers and a sea of freely spoken words, the conversation flows between two individuals, Santiago and Ambrosia, who talk of their tormented lives and of the overall degradation and frustration that has slowly taken over their town. Through a complicated web of secrets and historical references, Mario Vargas Llosa analyzes the mental and moral mechanisms that govern power and the people behind it. More than a historic analysis, Conversation in The Cathedral is a groundbreaking novel that tackles identity as well as the role of a citizen and how a lack of personal freedom can forever scar a people and a nation.
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Very Good. Size: 8x6x2; 1st edition 1st printing-some wear to edge of dust jacket (now in mylar cover-ink mark and minor staining to closed page edge-some staining to cover-otherwise binding strong contents clean-enjoy.
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Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. 1st U.S. edition, 1st printing (printing row on last page contains the "1"). 601 pp. Fine book in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine (binding square and tight, no markings) / Fine dust jacket ($12.50 price not clipped; short, light creases to bottom corners of front and rear flaps). A clean, fresh copy. Difficult to find a copy that looks nicer than this one.
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Very Good jacket. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good in dust jacket. Previous owner's name on ffep; otherwise appears unread with NO markings. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore.
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Fine in near fine jacket. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. 601p., thick 8vo, cloth d.w. New York: Harper & Row, (1975). First American Edition. Signed by the author on the half title; ownership signature on flyleaf.
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Fine. 0060145021. First American Edition. Close to fine in a like dj. (Barely discernable trace of spotting to cloth. A couple tiny edge nicks & one spot of dampspotting at interior base of spine. Lightly discernable crease at base of front dj. flap) A remarkably nice copy of this Nobel Prize winning author's most elusive title. (O)