The Storyteller Av Mario Vargas Llosa

When the beautiful teenage Lily arrives in Lima in 1950, fifteen-year-old Ricardo falls instantly in love with her. A decade later, now living in Paris, Ricardo falls in love with a woman named Comrade Arlette, who is incredibly similar to Lily but refuses...

When a high-profile businessman is blackmailed by a notorious magazine editor, his comfortable life is threatened by the salacious expose. Then the editor is found murdered, and the two couples have no choice but to descend into the murkiest depths of...

Flora died before her grandson was born, but their travels and obsessions unravel side by side in this absorbing novel. A rare study of passion, ambition and the determined pursuit of greatness in the face of illness, death and conservative forces, The...