{"product_id":"making-waves-essays-by-mario-vargas-llosa","title":"'Making Waves: Essays' by Mario Vargas Llosa","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"954\"\u003eMario Vargas Llosa’s \u003cem data-start=\"34\" data-end=\"48\"\u003eMaking Waves\u003c\/em\u003e gathers thirty years of essays from his life as a novelist, critic, political combatant, failed Peruvian presidential candidate, and later Nobel Prize winner.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"954\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"954\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45185041301587,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-06-03T151945.610.png?v=1780464147","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/making-waves-essays-by-mario-vargas-llosa","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}