FROM THE PUBLISHER
Set in Lima, the novel tells of a love triangle whose participants may be the fictional creations of Don Rigoberto: Rigoberto himself, by day a gray insurance executive, by night a pornographer and sexual enthusiast; his second wife, Lucrecia; and his young son, Alfonso. Husband and wife are estranged because of a sexual encounter between Lucrecia and the boy, a fey, angelic creature who may have seduced her (rather than the other way around). Missing Lucrecia terribly, Rigoberto fills his notebooks with memories, fantasies, and unsent letters; meanwhile, the boy visits Lucrecia, determined to regain her favor and win her love. Together, father and son persuade her to enact a series of tableaux vivants based on works by Egon Schiele and other painters. With his usual sly assurance, Vargas Llosa keeps the reader guessing which episodes are real and which issue from the Don's imagination.

This is now reserved for kittiwake :) Happy reading!

YowlYY passed this book on to me at today's Nottingham meet.

I started reading this book, but soon decided that it is not really my cup of tea. Odd really, since I have loved everything else that I've read by Mario Vargas Llosa.

RELEASE NOTES:

This book will be released at Saturday's meet and left at the Hudson's OBCZ if nobody takes it.

Picked up at the Birmingham BookCrossing meetup for Festival Purposes. We are having give-away-books stalls at the Organic Festival on April 23 and Mozfest on June 24. At both events we will have BookCrossing stalls where we will be giving away books. This book will attend one (or possibly both!) of these events.

RELEASE NOTES:

At our BookCrossing stall at the Moseley Festival!

If you have picked up this book at the stall, please do take a moment to make an entry to say you have it, and another entry when you've read it, then pass it on. That way, anyone who has the book in the future knows its history, and everyone who has owned the book can see what's happened to it.