Description
A celebrated Peruvian novelist becomes fascinated by the mysterious disappearance of a former university friend and by rumors of a man who travels among the Machiguenga people, preserving their myths and collective memory. Moving between modern urban life and the Amazonian world, the novel explores storytelling as a force that connects communities, reshapes identity, and resists cultural erasure. Blending shifting perspectives, myth, memory, and documentary-like detail, it is a richly layered meditation on civilization, tradition, and the uneasy encounter between different ways of seeing the world.
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paperback
Seix Barral
Published Jan 1, 1987
ISBN: 9788432230806
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Details
First Published
1987
Language
spa
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for El Hablador by Mario Vargas Llosa.