The Storyteller (Paperback, Main)

Set in the backyard of Peru - the fast-diminishing Amazon headlands - among the Machiguenga Indians, barely acquainted with 'civilization' before it starts extracting its awful toll, this ambitious and eloquent novel explores their plight and raises some uncomfortable questions about their world and ours. (Kirkus UK)

At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer comes across a photograph of a tribal storyteller deep in the Amazon jungle. As he stares at the photograph, it dawns on him that he knows this man. The storyteller is not an Indian at all but his university classmate, Saul Zuratas, who was thought to have disappeared in Israel. As recollections of Zuratas flow through his mind, the writer begins to imagine Zuratas' transformation into a member of the Machiguenga tribe. In The Storyteller, Mario Vargas Llosa has created a spellbinding tale of one man's journey from the modern world to our origins.

General

Imprint:	Faber and Faber
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 1998
Authors:	Mario Vargas Llosa
Translators:	Helen Lane
Dimensions:	198 x 128 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	256
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-0-571-16134-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Promotions
LSN:	0-571-16134-0
Barcode:	9780571161348

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