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I Give You My Silence: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

By (author) Mario Vargas Llosa, Translated by Adrian Nathan West

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'A titan of Latin American literature.' New York Times 'A powerhouse of literary energy.' William Boyd The final novel from Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, a playful and powerful love letter to Peruvian culture. One evening, ToÃ±o Azpilcueta, a Peruvian folk music journalist, witnesses a performance that changes his life. ToÃ±o becomes obsessed with hearing the virtuoso guitarist Lalo Molfino play again, but the next he hears, Molfino is dead. So begins a quest to uncover the story of this unforgettable musician. ToÃ±o tracks down the priest who rescued Molfino from a rubbish heap and raised him, the musicians who played with him and the girl who claimed to love him. ToÃ±o decides that he will write a book that will not only immortalize the hero of the Creole vals but will establish the music he loved as a unifying symbol for his fractured country. But the more ToÃ±o writes, the more he struggles to keep control of his story. As his savings dwindle and his paranoia rises, it becomes clear that writing a masterpiece is more complicated and consuming than he had realised.