Between the Covers

Hardcover. First American edition. Translated by Lysander Kemp. Fine in fine dust jacket with slightest of toning. Inscribed by Vargas Llosa in Spanish on the half-title to Martin Nozick. The Peruvian Nobel laureate's first novel, set at the Lima military academy he attended as a teenager. The proprietors of the military academy were so outraged by the book that, according to Vargas Llosa in *The New York Times Magazine*, 1,000 copies were ceremoniously burned on campus. According to him, one Peruvian general called it the work of a "degenerate mind," and another that it was Ecuadorian propaganda, meant to undermine the Peruvian army. Vargas Llosa's first book, with an inscription.

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