The War of the End of the World (signed by Mario Vargas Llosa)

First US Edition. Signed by Llosa on the title page via bookplate. Translated by Helen R. Lane. Fine in a fine jacket, unclipped ($18.95), a bit toned on the flaps. Fine black cloth with yellow paper-covered boards. Square and firmly bound. A beautiful copy of this Vargas classic.

Mario Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading writers of his generation. Winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature. In this book we have Llosa's take on the backland uprisings in Brazil. Considered by many to be his masterpiece and boldly stated on the jacket, "To compare The War of the End of the World with the great historical novels of a Tolstoy or a Stedhal is no hyperbole."