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050 00 $aPQ8498.32.A65$bP4913 1994
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100 1 $aVargas Llosa, Mario,$d1936-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79079153
240 10 $aPez en el agua.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93110390
245 12 $aA fish in the water :$ba memoir /$cMario Vargas Llosa ; translated by Helen Lane.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus, Giroux,$c1994.
263 $a9405
300 $a532 pages ;$c24 cm
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520 $aIn 1990, Mario Vargas Llosa decided to run for the presidency of his native Peru, campaigning on a platform of economic reform and stringent counterterrorism against the Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path. His campaign against (and ultimate defeat by) Alberto Fujimori was the stuff of international headlines, transforming an eminent writer into a politician of world stature. A Fish in the Water is Vargas Llosa's disarming and deeply absorbing response to that profoundly heady - and troubling - experience.
520 8 $aThis is a twofold book: a memoir of the formation of one of Latin America's most celebrated artists, from his birth in Arequipa in 1936 to his departure for Europe to make his career as a writer, and, in alternating chapters, the story of Vargas Llosa's organization of the reform movement which culminated in his bid for the presidency.
520 8 $aIn this richly personal work, Vargas Llosa evokes the experiences which gave rise to his fiction, including his stay at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy, which was the basis of his first book, The Time of the Hero, and his desperate attempts to marry while still a minor, as recounted in hilarious detail in Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.
520 8 $aIn parallel, he describes the social, literary, and political influences that led him to enter the political arena as a crusader for modern democracy and a free-market economy. Offering an unexpectedly intimate look at how fact becomes fiction and at the formation of a courageous and original politician and thinker. A Fish in the Water reveals Mario Vargas Llosa as a world figure whose real story is just beginning.
600 10 $aVargas Llosa, Mario,$d1936-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79079153
651 0 $aPeru$xPolitics and government$y1980-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88004876
650 0 $aAuthors, Peruvian$y20th century$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009116323
650 0 $aPoliticians$zPeru$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010106991
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