I Give You My Silence: A Novel

In his final novel, the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa returns to his native Peru.

Toño Azpilcueta, proletarian intellectual, writer of sundry articles, aspirant to the now-defunct professorship of Peruvian studies, is an expert in the vals, a genre of music descended from the European waltz but rooted in New World creole culture. When he hears a performance by the elusive guitarist Lalo Molfino, Toño is convinced not only that he is in the presence of the country’s finest musician, ...