A Fish In The Water: A Memoir.
VARGOS LLOSA, Mario.
A Fish In The Water: A Memoir.
First Edition of A Fish in the Water; Signed by Mario Vargas Llosa
New York: : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994.
$150.00
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Item Number: 112
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the title page. Review copy with material laid in. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Mario Vargas Llosa’s A Fish in the Water is a compelling memoir that intertwines the author’s personal history with his dramatic entry into Peruvian politics. Structured in alternating chapters, the work moves between his formative years—marked by family tensions, literary ambition, and cultural discovery—and his 1990 presidential campaign, a turbulent and ultimately unsuccessful bid that placed him at the center of national upheaval. Combining the narrative skill of a Nobel Prize–winning novelist with sharp political insight, Vargas Llosa offers an unflinching account of power, ideology, and disillusionment, making the memoir both an intimate self-portrait and a vivid chronicle of modern Latin American political life.
