Contents
The book is divided in twenty chapters in which the writer intersperses his narration with topics about his early life and the events related to his political activity in Peru. Along these memories, Vargas Llosa talks about many important experiences for him, like the event when he knew his father who he believed death, his first job in the newspaper La Cronica, and others. He also refers the facts related to his political activity, like his participation in the opposite movement to the Peruvian president Alan Garcia in 1987, and his campaign as candidate to the presidency of Peru in 1990. One of the curiosities this work revealed about the writer, was the event when he played in the junior team of Universitario de Deportes, the Peruvian football club he is supporter.
«One of the happiest days of my life was that sunday when Toto Terry, one of the greatest person in my neighborhood, took me to the national stadium and made me play in the junior team of Universitario de Deportes against the one of Deportivo Municipal. Be entering to that huge field, wearing the cream colored uniform of my team, was not that the best thing that could happen to someone in the world?». —Mario Vargas Llosa.Read more about this topic: A Fish In The Water
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