IN PRAISE OF THE STEPMOTHER
by Mario Vargas Llosa
Translated by Helen Lane
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
149 pages; $18.95
This small and distinctly peculiar novel was published in the original Spanish in 1988, just as its author began his long, ultimately losing campaign for the presidency of Peru. Now that it is available in English, In Praise of the Stepmother should raise again the question that readers have been asking for the past two years: Why would someone with the private talent and the exotic sensibilities of Mario Vargas Llosa want to enter public life at all?
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