Touchstones
Subtitle: essays on literature, art, and politics
By: Mario Vargas Llosa ; selected, edited, and translated by John King
Contributors: King, John, 1950-
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780374278373
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: Latin American essays; Travel; English literature; History and criticism
Description: Touchstones collects Vargas Llosa's readings of seminal twentieth-century novels, from Heart of Darkness to The Tin Drum; incisive essays on political and social thinkers; and contemporary pieces on 9/11 and the immediate aftermath of the war in Iraq. --from publisher description
Notes: Originally published: London : Faber and Faber, 2007.

"This volume includes the eight central articles from the Iraq Diary."--p. xxviii.

Includes bibliographical references.

Translated into English from the original Spanish.