Full name: The Storyteller: A Novel

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Year: 1987 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction Culture: Latin-American Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780312420284 0312420285

At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer happens upon a photograph of a tribal storyteller deep in the jungles of the Amazon. He is overcome with the eerie sense that he knows this man...that the storyteller is not an Indian at all but an old school friend, Saul Zuratas. As recollections of Zuratas flow through his mind, the writer begins to imagine Zuratas's transformation from a modern to a central member of the unacculturated Machiguenga tribe. Weaving the mysteries of identity, storytelling, and truth, Vargas Llosa has created a spellbinding tale of one man's journey from the modern world to our origins, abandoning one in order to find meaning in both. Similar books: In Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas Llosa The Green House by Mario Vargas Llosa The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta by Mario Vargas Llosa The Neighborhood by Mario Vargas Llosa The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto by Mario Vargas Llosa Darkness Visible by William Golding The Sunlight Dialogues by John Gardner The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder Very Old Bones by William Kennedy Arrival And Departure by Arthur Koestler Landscape Painted with Tea by Milorad Pavic Waiting Period by Hubert Selby Jr. Sundog by Jim Harrison Seduction of the Minotaur by Anais Nin The Explorer by Frances Parkinson Keyes The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt Lancelot by Walker Percy Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch Distant Star by Roberto Bolano