Touchstones: Essays on Literature, Art, and Politics in Bloomington, MN

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
One 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.
Touchstones
collects Vargas Llosa's brilliant readings of seminal twentieth-century novels, from
Heart of Darkness
to
The Tin Drum
; incisive essays on political and social thinkers; and contemporary pieces on 9/11 and the immediate aftermath of the war in Iraq.
Fantastically intelligent, inspired, and surprising,
is a landmark collection of essays from one of the world's leading writers and intellectuals.