Darkest Peru
John Sturrock, 19 February 1987
The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
by Mario Vargas Llosa.
Faber, 310 pp., £9.95, October 1986,0 571 14579 5 Show More
by Mario Vargas Llosa.
Faber, 310 pp., £9.95, October 1986,
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Randolph Hogan.
Cape, 106 pp., £8.95, November 1986,0 224 02160 5 Show More
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Randolph Hogan.
Cape, 106 pp., £8.95, November 1986,
“... he knows nothing about using them, so depends on the experience of his one significant recruit, a young army officer; he needs transport, but he has never learnt to drive. Worse yet is that he knows nothing at all about the very people he trusts are going to be his following, the Indians, the textbook proletariat. He is a city boy, but to get his Indians he ... ”