Mario Vargas Llosa

Biography

A winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America’s most distinguished fiction writers and essayists. He is the author of more than twenty-five books, including the novel The Bad Girl (FSG, 2007), from which “The Chilean Girls“ is excerpted.

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FICTION / Summer 2007

The Chilean Girls

By Mario Vargas Llosa

That was a fabulous summer. Pérez Prado and his twelve-professor orchestra came to liven up the Carnival dances at the Club Terrazas of Miraflores and the Lawn Tennis of Lima; a national mambo championship was organized in Plaza de Acho...