Review by Gerald Martin Mario Vargas Llosa – the Peruvian leftist who fell in love with Margaret Thatcher | Mario Vargas Llosa
“AAt what precise moment did Peru mess itself up? Those words on the opening page of Conversation in the Cathedral It announced the arrival of a writer who understood that national history could become the organizing principle of fiction. At the same time that Latin America was discovering the intoxicating possibilities of magical realism –