The War of The End of The World.

VARGAS LLOSA, Mario.

$975.00

Item Number: 132567

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984.

First edition of this classic work Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Greg, this Brazilian adventure and my best wishes Mario Vargas Llosa Nov. 85.” Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket, review copy with slip. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.

"The greatest qualities of this excellent novel are ... its refusal ever to abandon the human dimension in a story that could so easily have become grandiose ... and finally, a profound awareness of the tragic irony that makes tens of thousands of ordinary women and men die fighting against the Republic that was created, in theory, precisely to serve them, and to protect them against the rapacity of their former feudal overlords" (Salman Rushdie, New Republic).