The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta by Mario Vargas Llosa, Alfred MacAdam

The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta

Mario Vargas Llosa, Alfred MacAdam

320 pages first pub 1984 (editions)

fiction dark tense slow-paced

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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 histo...

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Loveable characters?

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Diverse cast of characters?

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