Conversation in the Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of General Ordia. Suspicion, paranoia and blackmail have become part of life. The conversation flows between two individuals, Santiago and Ambrosia, who talk of their tormented lives and of the degradation and frustration that has taken over their town.

In this groundbreaking novel, Mario Vargas Llosa explores the mental and moral mechanisms that govern power and the people behind it. It is about identity, the role of a citizen and how a lack of personal freedom can forever scar a nation and its people.

Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa is a frightening and impressive portrait of evil by one of Latin America's leading contemporary novelists.

About the Author
Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Peru in 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. Gregory Rabassa was one of the most prominent translators of Latin American literature into English. Born in Yonkers, New York, in 1922, Rabassa obtained his degree from Columbia University and held a position as professor of Romance Languages and Comparative Literature at Queens College, City University of New York. Among his most recognized translations are One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Paradiso, by Jose Lezama Lima; and The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, by Joachim Maria Machado de Assis. Other authors whose works Rabassa has translated are Miguel Angel Asturias, Manuel Mujica Lainez, Clarice Lispector, Mario Vargas Llosa, Demetrio Aguilera-Malta, Dalton Trevisan, Jorge Amado, Jose Donoso, Luisa Valenzuela, Luis Rafael Sanchez, and Osman Lins.

Awards
Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 (Australia).



Book Information
ISBN 9780571168828
Author Mario Vargas Llosa
Format Paperback
Page Count 608
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publisher Faber & Faber
Weight(grams) 394g
Dimensions(mm) 195mm * 125mm * 35mm