I give you my silence : a novel / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-2025, Author.

Contributor:

West, Adrian Nathan, translator.

Standardized Title:

Le dedico mi silencio. English http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/9c7f8911-0a37-6f35-5d54-c9d2355e0ba1

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Peru--Fiction.

Peru.

Authors--Fiction.

Authors.

Guitarists--Fiction.

Guitarists.

Peru--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Historical fiction.

Physical Description:

246 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026.

Summary:

"In his final novel, the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa returns to his native Peru"-- Provided by publisher.

"Toño Azpilcueta, writer of sundry articles, aspirant to the now defunct professorship of Peruvian studies, is an expert in the vals, a genre of music descended from the European waltz but rooted in New World Creole culture. When he hears a performance by the solitary and elusive guitarist Lalo Molfino, he is convinced not only that he is in the presence of the country’s finest musician, but that his own love for Peruvian music, as he has long suspected, has a profound social function. If he could just write the biography of the man before him and tell the story of both the vals and its attendant inspiring ethos, huachafería (Peru’s most important contribution to world culture, according to Toño), he might capture his country’s soul and inspire his fellow citizens remember the ties that bind them. Through music, the populace might unite and lay down their arms and embrace a harmonious and unified Peruvian culture"-- Provided by publisher.

"In his final novel, the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa returns to his native Peru"-- Provided by publisher.

In Peru, a struggling writer becomes obsessed with documenting the life of an elusive guitarist whom he believes embodies the spirit of the vals, a Creole musical tradition. Hoping that a biography of the musician and a celebration of the culture surrounding the music might reveal Peru's national soul and foster social unity, the writer confronts the tensions between artistic idealism and a society marked by political violence.

Notes:

"Originally published in Spanish in 2023 by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, Spain, as Le dedico mi silencio"--Title page verso.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780374616250

0374616256

OCLC:

1522002630