Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto (The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto)

by Mario Vargas Llosa

Overview

Set in Lima, Peru this is the story of a bizarre love triangle whose participants may be the creations of Don Rigoberto's fertile imagination. The central characters are Rigoberto himself, a dull insurance executive by day, a pornogapher and sexual enthusiast by night; Lucrecia, his second wife; and Alfonso, his angel-faced young son. Husband and wife have been separated for a year because of a sexual encounter between the boy and his stepmother. Rigoberto misses Lucrecia desperately—filling notebooks with his memories, fantasies, and letters he will never send. Meanwhile, Alfonso visits Lucrecia, attempting to both win her love and reunite her with his father. A companion volume to In Praise of the Stepmother—where we were first introduced to these passionate characters—The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto is a compelling mix of fantasy and reality that always keep the reader guessing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780140274721
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/01/1998
Edition description:	Spanish-language Edition
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	5.13(w) x 7.72(h) x 0.85(d)
Language:	Spanish
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Mario Vargas Llosa is the author of twelve novels, including Death in the Andes, In Praise of the Stepmother, The Storyteller, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, and The War of the End of the World, which are all available from Penguin in English. In 1995, he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor, and the Jerusalem Prize. Vargas Llosa lives in London.