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A novel about love and betrayal, a younger generation that can no longer tell the difference between reality and desire, and the destructive effects of media fantasies.
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Mario Vargas-Llosa was born in Peru is 1936. He is the author of some of the last half-century's most important novels, including The War of the End of the World, The Feast of the Goat, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and Conversation in the Cathedral. In 2010 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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- EditoreFaber & Faber
- Data di pubblicazione2016
- ISBN 10 0571310745
- ISBN 13 9780571310746
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine432
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