El Hablador (Spanish Edition) by Mario Vargas Llosa - 1995-09

Barcelona. 1991. Editorial Seix Barral. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers with French Flaps. 8432230804. 237 pages. paperback. . keywords: Literature Latin America Peru. FROM THE PUBLISHER - IN SPANISH. In a small gallery in Florence, a world-weary Peruvian happens upon an exhibition of photographs from the Amazon jungle. One of these pictures shows a tribal storyteller seated in the middle of a circle of Machiguenga Indians. The Machiguengas, until a few years before, had been completely isolated from civilization, so it is astonishing that these photographs exist at all. Even more curious is the fact that there is something particularly odd about the physical appearance of the storyteller. The man in the photo is horribly disfigured and seems far too light-skinned to be an Indian. As the visitor to the gallery stares at the photograph, he is overcome by the eerie sense that he knows this man. The resemblance to his old friend Saul Zuratas is uncanny. Zuratas, known to all as… Read More

Planeta Pub Corp, 1995-09-01. Spanish. Paperback. Used:Good.