In Praise of the Stepmother: A Novel
May 2024 · Macmillan + ORM
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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, this classic novel erotically explores the relationships in one family.
Mario Vargas Llosa lures readers into a passionate world of family life and erotic love with the story of Don Rigoberto, his second wife, Lucretia, and Rigoberto's prepubescent son, Alfonso. Although the group appears to be a happy household, within this small constellation lurk the shadows of perversion and the limitless boundaries of familial passion.
"Vargas Llosa is a writer of promethean authority, making outstanding fiction in whatever direction he turns. . . . Erotically stimulating, artfully self-assured, In Praise of the Stepmother is a steamy as it is intelligent." — Newsday
"Startling . . . Not only would an American presidential candidate not have written it, but the National Endowment for the Arts wouldn't have given it a grant." — The New Yorker
Mario Vargas Llosa lures readers into a passionate world of family life and erotic love with the story of Don Rigoberto, his second wife, Lucretia, and Rigoberto's prepubescent son, Alfonso. Although the group appears to be a happy household, within this small constellation lurk the shadows of perversion and the limitless boundaries of familial passion.
"Vargas Llosa is a writer of promethean authority, making outstanding fiction in whatever direction he turns. . . . Erotically stimulating, artfully self-assured, In Praise of the Stepmother is a steamy as it is intelligent." — Newsday
"Startling . . . Not only would an American presidential candidate not have written it, but the National Endowment for the Arts wouldn't have given it a grant." — The New Yorker
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Antonio Culiacán
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What a guts to write such taboo matters
About the author
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010 "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." Peru's foremost writer, he has been awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor, and the Jerusalem Prize. His many works include The Feast of the Goat, The Bad Girl, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The War of the End of the World, and The Storyteller. He lives in London.
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