{"product_id":"9780374278373","title":"Touchstones : Essays on Literature, Art, and Politics","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eTouchstones\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Mario Vargas Llosa\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of Latin America's most garlanded novelists—and the recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature—Mario Vargas Llosa is also an acute and wide-ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. \u003ci\u003eTouchstones \u003c\/i\u003ecollects Vargas Llosa's brilliant readings of seminal twentieth-century novels, from \u003ci\u003eHeart of Darkness \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eThe Tin Drum\u003c\/i\u003e; incisive essays on political and social thinkers; and contemporary pieces on 9\/11 and the immediate aftermath of the war in Iraq.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFantastically intelligent, inspired, and surprising, \u003ci\u003eTouchstones \u003c\/i\u003eis a landmark collection of essays from one of the world's leading writers and intellectuals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In the star-studded world of the Latin American novel, Mario Vargas Llosa is a supernova.” —\u003ci\u003eRaymond Sokolov, The Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The bold, dynamic and endlessly productive imagination of the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the writing giants of our time, is something truly to be admired . . . As with any great writer, [he] makes us see clearly what we have been looking at all the while but never noticed.” —\u003ci\u003eAlan Cheuse, San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Generous in friendship, unfailingly curious about the world at large, tireless in his quest to probe the nature of the human animal, [Vargas Llosa] is a model writer for our times.” —\u003ci\u003eMarie Arana, The Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Vargas Llosa] is a worldly writer in the best sense of the word: intelligent, urbane, well-traveled, well-informed, cosmopolitan, free-thinking and free-speaking.” —\u003ci\u003eMerle Rubin, Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mario Vargas Llosa has long been a literary adventurer of the very first order . . . [He], I am convinced, can tell us stories about anything and make them dance to his inventive rhythms.” —\u003ci\u003eLisa Appignanesi, The Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner Nobel Prize in Literature (2010), Nobel Prize For Literature (2010)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780374278373\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40594836029646,"sku":"9780374278373","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_4fa1613a-85d9-43c8-bc7d-e739b47f8138.jpg?v=1637819494","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780374278373","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}