num_pages: 310
description: Set in Peru during a war between U.S. Marines and a Cuban-Bolivian revolutionary army, this fictional memoir characterizes the evolution of a revolutionary, in a powerful psychological portrait of the fanaticism and destruction of revolution
language: English
title: The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
titlecomplete: The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
genres: Fiction, Latin American, Spanish Literature, Latin American Literature, Literature, Novels, Nobel Prize, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1905
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Premio Grinzane Cavour
category: Narrativa Straniera
publisher: Vintage