The Storyteller - Softcover

Beautiful and brilliant. (Sunday Times)

A master stylist. (New Statesman)

Startling and intriguing. (Times Literary Supplement)

The Storyteller confirms Vargas Llosa's prominence among even the best of his contemporary South American fictionalists. (Financial Times)

Vargas Llosa's most engaging and accessible book ... I was spellbound, as if by the voice of that storyteller in the circle of listeners. (Ursula K. Le Guin The New York Times Book Review)

Brilliant ... A whole culture is contained within these dreamy narratives. (Raymond Sokolov Wall Street Journal)

It is in the chapters narrated by the storyteller that the novel comes wonderfully alive, transporting the reader to a world where men hang suspended in a delicate web of cosmic relationships. (Mark Dery Philadelphia Inquirer)

A fascinating tale ... with enormous skill and formal grace, Vargas Llosa weaves through the mystery surrounding the fate of Saul Zuratas. (Paul Gray Time)

At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer comes across a photograph of a tribal storyteller deep in the Amazon jungle. As he stares at the photograph, it dawns on him that he knows this man. The storyteller is not an Indian at all but his university classmate, Saul Zuratas, who was thought to have disappeared in Israel. As recollections of Zuratas flow through his mind, the writer begins to imagine Zuratas' transformation into a member of the Machiguenga tribe. In The Storyteller, Mario Vargas Llosa has created a spellbinding tale of one man's journey from the modern world to our origins.