In Praise of the Stepmother - A Novel

Mario Vargas Llosa

Translator Helen Lane

Summary

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

Available since: 03/04/2011.

Print length: 176 pages.

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