by Mario Vargas Llosa · Círculo de Lectores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422680055
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«El paraíso en la otra esquina» is the historical novel by Mario Vargas Llosa published in paperback by Círculo de Lectores (485 pages, in Spanish).
Flora Tristán, activist and forerunner of feminism, and Paul Gauguin, painter who abandons bourgeois life in search of a pure and primitive world, are the two poles of the novel. Their stories alternate: she fights for the rights of women and workers; he pursues freedom and desire in Tahiti. Two ways of seeking paradise: utopia and art.
Published in 2003, the novel is set in the nineteenth century; this paperback edition has 485 pages.
Aimed at readers of contemporary fiction and historical novels, particularly those interested in the work of Mario Vargas Llosa.
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
