A Fish in the Water

A Memoir

• Author(s): Mario Vargas Llosa,
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Pages: 544
• ISBN_10: 1429922540
  ISBN_13: 9781429922548
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures , Biography & Autobiography / Political , Political Science / World / Caribbean & Latin American , Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy , Political Science / Commentary & Opinion ,

Description:... In this literary memoir, the Nobel Prize–winning author and Peruvian politician shares “a convincing self-portrait . . . an often funny and cautionary tale” (Time).

In 1990, Mario Vargas Llosa decided to run for the presidency of his native Peru. He campaigned on a platform of economic reform and stringent counterterrorism against the far-left gorilla group, Sendero Luminoso. His failed campaign against Alberto Fujimori generated international headlines, transforming the renowned author into a politician of world stature.

A Fish in the Water is Vargas Llosa’s personal account of his life as seen through the lens of his time as a candidate. He evokes the experiences that gave rise to his fiction, while—in parallel—he describes the social, literary, and political influences that led him to enter the political arena as a crusader for democracy and a free-market economy.