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Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the master storytellers of our time. -- Chicago Tribune Book World

From one of the world's most critically acclaimed authors comes a haunting novel about power, corruption and the complex search for identity

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Conversación en La Catedral es algo más que un hito en el derrotero literario del Premio Nobel de Literatura Mario Vargas Llosa: es un punto de referencia insoslayable, un dato fijo en la historia de la literatura actual. Zavalita y el zambo Ambrosio conversan en La Catedral... Read Full Overview

"Conversation in the Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odria. Over beers and a sea of freely spoken words, the conversation flows between two individuals, Santiago and Ambrosia, who talk of their tormented lives and of the overall degradation... Read Full Overview

"Conversation in the Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odria. Over beers and a sea of freely spoken words, the conversation flows between two individuals, Santiago and Ambrosia, who talk of their tormented lives and of the overall degradation... Read Full Overview

Reflects the repression of students during the Odria dictatorship. Through a complicated web of private live, the author analyzes the mental and moral mechanisms that govern power and the people behind it.