Way to Paradise

Llosa,Mario Vargas

ISBN 10: 0571220371 / ISBN 13: 9780571220373

Edité par ff, 2003

N° de réf. du vendeur U9780571220373

Synopsis :

The dramatic lives of two bold, independent adventurers: Paul Gaugin, one of the great French painters, and his grandmother Flora Tristan, a trail-blazing women's suffragist. Flora died before her grandson was born, but their travels and obsessions unfold side by side in this novel.

À propos de l'auteur: With novels including The War of the End of the World, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto and The Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargas Llosa has established an international reputation as one of the Latin America's most important authors.He was born in Peru in 1936 and educated at university in Lima, where he studied Humanities and Law. Later, a scholarship took him to Madrid and, having gained his PhD, he moved to Paris not knowing that he would live and work in Europe for the next eighteen years. He returned to Lima in 1974, although he makes regular trips to Europe.Always politically outspoken, from 1976 to 1979 Llosa served as President of PEN. His deep commitment to free expression is frequently reflected in the politically charged nature of his books, which have aroused the anger of the right and the left wing alike.A man of diverse interests, he is a playwright and his critical studies of Garcia

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Way to Paradise
Éditeur : ff
Date d'édition : 2003
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : Very Good
Etat de la jaquette : 17721531
Signé : 6/20/2023 8:36:35 AM
Edition : 1687250195.