Book description
The Cubs and Other Stories is Mario Vargas Llosa's only volume of
short fiction available in English. Vargas Llosa's domain is the Peru
of male youth and machismo, where life's dramas play themselves out on
the soccer field, on the dance floor and on street corners. The title
work, The Cubs, tells the story of the carefree boyhood of PP Cuellar
and his friends, and of PP's bizarre accident and tragic coming of
age. In a candid and perceptive foreword to this collection of early
writing, Vargas Llosa provides background to the volume and a unique
glimpse into the mind of the artist.
Mario Vargas-Llosa was born in Peru is 1936. He is the author of some
of the last half-century's most important novels, including The War of
the End of the World, The Feast of the Goat, Aunt Julia and the
Scriptwriter and Conversation in the Cathedral. In 2010 he was awarded
the Nobel Prize in Literature.
