by Mario Vargas Llosa · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472233614
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Elogio de la madrastra is an erotic novel by the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, published in 1988. The story explores complex family relationships and desire, focusing on the sensuality of Doña Lucrecia, the stepmother, and the dynamics that are established with her husband Don Rigoberto and her disturbing son Fonchito. Through an elegant and provocative prose, Vargas Llosa immerses us in a world of perversity and innocence, where the limits between love and obsession are blurred.
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".
