Mario Vargas Llosa’s Making Waves gathers thirty years of essays from his life as a novelist, critic, political combatant, failed Peruvian presidential candidate, and later Nobel Prize winner.

This shows his written trajectory across a life as a public-intellectual, moving between literature and politics, Latin America and Europe, revolution and disillusionment, Joyce and Faulkner, Sartre and Marx, Cuba, Peru, the Shining Path, nationalism, liberalism, bad faith, beauty, violence...you name it. It is a sharp, wide-ranging collection for readers interested in the machinery behind his novels as much as the novels themselves.

Paperback edition published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This paperback edition published 2011. Good second-hand condition, with light cover and edge wear visible. Interior pages clean and well kept.