Mario Vargas Llosa

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1979
  • Latest Book:
    October 2022
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Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • The Cubs and Other Stories

    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, the dance floor, and on s...

  • Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

    Mario Vargas Llosa's masterful, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals. The ...

  • The Green House

    Mario Vargas Llosa's classic early novel takes place in a Peruvian town, situated between desert and jungle, which is torn by boredom and lust. Don Anselmo, a stranger in a black coat, builds a brothel on the outskirts of the town while he charms ...

  • Conversation in the Cathedral

    Conversation in The Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odría. Over beers and a sea of freely spoken words, the conversation flows between two individuals, Santiago and Ambrosia, who talk of their tormented lives...

  • The War of the End of the World

    The Nobel Prize�"winning author’s classic novel of civil war in nineteenth-century Brazil: “A modern tragedy on the grand scale . . . As dark as spilled blood” (Salman Rushdie, The New Republic).Deep within the remote backlands ...

  • Who Killed Palomino Molero?

    The Nobel Prize�"winning author draws on his own investigation of an infamous murder in 1950s Peru to construct this acclaimed detective novel.When a young airman is found murdered near an air force base in the northern desert, Lieutenant Silva and ...

  • The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta

    The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta is an astute psychological portrait of a modern revolutionary and a searching account of an old friend's struggle to understand him. First published in English in 1986, the novel probes the long and checkered history ...

  • The Time of the Hero

    The Nobel Prize�"winning author’s controversial debut novel exposes the brutal realities of life within a Peruvian military academy.At the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima, Peru, four young cadets have joined forces in an effort to survive t...

  • The Storyteller

    At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer happens upon a photograph of a tribal storyteller deep in the jungles of the Amazon. He is overcome with the eerie sense that he knows this man...that the storyteller is not an Indian at all but an ol...



  • In Praise of the Stepmother

    Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, this classic novel erotically explores the relationships in one family.Mario Vargas Llosa lures readers into a passionate world of family life and erotic love with the story of Don Rigoberto, his second wife, ...

  • Captain Pantoja and the Special Service

    This delightful farce opens as the prim and proper Captain Pantoja learns he is to be sent to Peru's Amazon frontier on a secret mission for the army -- to provide females for the amorous recruits. Side-splitting complications arise as world of Capta...

  • Death in the Andes

    Three men disappear in the Peruvian Andes where a guerilla group resides, in the Nobel Laureate’s “intriguing political detective story . . . A terrific novel” (Kirkus Reviews).In Death in the Andes, Mario Vargas Llosa returns to...

  • The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto

    Set in Lima, the novel tells of a love story whose participants may be the fictional characters of Don Rigoberto. With his usual sly assurance, Vargas Llosa keeps the reader guessing which episodes are real and which issue from the Don's imagination;...

  • Vargas Llosa

    "This book provides a thoroughly edited text of Antonio Machado''s Campos de Castilla, one of twentieth-century Spain''s best-loved volumes of poetry. An extensive Introduction offers an in-depth commentary on his themes, techniques and metaphysical ...

  • The Feast of the Goat

    WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE In The Feast of the Goat, this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' (Bookforum), Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the birt...

  • Letters to a Young Novelist

    Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers. Drawing on the stories and novels of writers from around the globe-Borges, Bierce, Céline, Cortázar, Faulkner, Kafka, Robbe-Gril...

  • The Way to Paradise

    A New York Times Notable BookFlora Tristán, the illegitimate child of a wealthy Peruvian father and French mother, grows up in poverty and journeys to Peru to demand her inheritance. On her return in 1844, she makes her name as a champion of the dow...

  • The Bad Girl

    Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as "Lily" in Lima in 1950, when she arrives one summer out of the blue, claiming to be from Chile but vanishing the moment her claim is exposed as fiction. He loves her n...

  • Seven Stories from Spanish America

    In the great flowering of Latin American literature over the last three decades, the short story has played a key role. Some of the celebrated masters of the novel have excelled in this more succinct and accessible form. This is true of Carpentier...



  • Making Waves

    Spanning thirty years of writing, Making Waves traces the development of the Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa’s thinking on politics and culture, and shows the breadth of his interests and passions. Featured here are astute meditations...

  • Touchstones

    One of Latin America’s most garlanded novelists -- and the recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature -- Mario Vargas Llosa is also an acute and wide-ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. Touchstones collects Vargas Llo...

  • A Fish in the Water

    Mario Vargas Llosa's A Fish in the Water is a twofold book: a memoir of one of Latin America's most celebrated writers, beginning with his birth in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru; and the story of his organization of the reform movement which culminated in h...

  • The Dream of the Celt

    A subtle and enlightening novel about a neglected human rights pioneer by the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinar...

  • The Discreet Hero

    Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa's newest novel, The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to intersect: neat, endearing Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in Piura, Peru, who finds himself the victim of bla...

  • The Neighborhood

    A thrilling tale of desire and Peruvian corruption swirls around a scandalous exposé that leads to murder From the Nobel Laureate comes a politically charged detective novel weaving through the underbelly of Peruvian privilege. In the 1990s, duri...

  • Harsh Times

    The true story of Guatemala’s political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell itGuatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA topples the government of Jacobo Árbenz. Behind th...

  • Fonchito and The Moon

    “Dreamy illustrations and moody palettes play with the contrast of light and shadow in this sweet tale about first loves and childhood imagination.” Don't miss your first Mario Vargas Llosa: Fonchito and the Moon. Fonchito falls in love f...

  • Fonchito & The Moon

    “Dreamy illustrations and moody palettes play with the contrast of light and shadow in this sweet tale about first loves and childhood imagination.”Don't miss your first Mario Vargas Llosa: Fonchito and the Moon.Fonchito falls in love...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mario Vargas Llosa has published 28 books.

Mario Vargas Llosa does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Fonchito & The Moon, was published in October 2022.

The first book by Mario Vargas Llosa, The Cubs and Other Stories, was published in August 1979.

No. Mario Vargas Llosa does not write books in series.
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