num_pages: 320
description: Vargas Llosa's haunting work, set in Lima, tells the story of Cuban-backed radicals and their struggle against a crumbling military establishment.
language: English
title: The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
titlecomplete: The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
genres: Fiction, Latin American, Latin American Literature, Contemporary, Spanish Literature, Nobel Prize, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 1904
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Premio Grinzane Cavour
category: Narrativa Straniera
publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux