A review by alisonjfields
Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa

4.0

An intermittently brilliant slog through Peruvian culture and politics in the late 40s and 50s. The back three quarters struggled to support the formal experimentalism of the first. I found myself so distracted trying to figure out why Vargas Llosa switched the style that I lost occasionally lost track of the thug and bureacrat plotline (one of the three or four interconnected narratives running throughout).