Mario Vargas Llosa

When Fonchito asks his beautiful classmate, Nereida, for permission to kiss her on the cheek, she agrees only under one condition, that Fonchito bring her the moon, and in that moment his love finds a way to do the impossible.

"A series of talks Mario Vargas Llosa gave at Princeton in a class he cotaught with Rubén Gallo, covering the history of the novel, journalism, terrorism, and all of Vargas Llosa's best-known books"--

One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and demands that he invest in the magazine. Enrique refuses, and the next day the pictures are on the front page. Meanwhile, Enrique's wife is in the midst of a passionate and secret affair with the wife of Enrique's lawyer and...

"Throughout his career, the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa has grappled with the concept of Latin America on a global stage. Examining liberal claims and searching for cohesion, he continuously weighs the reality of the continent against the image it projects, and considers the political dangers and possibilities that face this diverse set of countries. Now this illuminating and versatile collection assembles these never-before-translated criticisms...

Felícito and Ismael are, each in his own way, quiet, discreet rebels: honorable men trying to seize control of their destinies in a social and political climate where all can seem set in stone, predetermined. They are hardly vigilantes, but each is determined to live according to his own personal ideals and desires{u2014}which means forcibly rising above the pettiness of their surroundings.