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Mario Vargas Llosa''s A Fish in the Water is a twofold book: a memoir by 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 his bid for the Peruvian presidency in 1990.

Llosa evokes the experiences which gave rise to his fiction, and describes the social, literary, and political influences that led him to enter the political arena as a crusader for a free-market economy.

A deeply absorbing look at how fact becomes fiction and at the formation of a courageous writer with strong political commitments, A Fish in the Water reveals Mario Vargas Llosa as a world figure whose real story is just beginning.

A Fish in the Water

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 19 June 1995
      ISBN-13 9780571175123
      978-0571175123
      ISBN-10 0571175120
      Also in:
      Autobiography: adventurers and explorers ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: fiction Books by Mario Vargas Llosa

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Mario Vargas Llosa''s A Fish in the Water is a twofold book: a memoir by 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 his bid for the Peruvian presidency in 1990.

      Llosa evokes the experiences which gave rise to his fiction, and describes the social, literary, and political influences that led him to enter the political arena as a crusader for a free-market economy.

      A deeply absorbing look at how fact becomes fiction and at the formation of a courageous writer with strong political commitments, A Fish in the Water reveals Mario Vargas Llosa as a world figure whose real story is just beginning.

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