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I Give You My Silence
by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Nobel laureate's final novel: a failed writer, an eccentric musician, and an obsession.
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The last novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author, in which a professor of Peruvian studies becomes consumed by the life and work of a singular musician.
Publisher's blurb
Synopsis
Toño Azpilcueta, insurance clerk and would-be scholar, believes Peruvian criollo music holds the key to national unity. His pursuit of an obscure guitarist becomes a study in the way obsession substitutes for a life. Translated by Adrian Nathan West.
The editorial feature
A late, self-aware book about failure by a writer who had none. The satire of intellectual grandiosity is affectionate rather than cruel, and the passages on music are extraordinary. A fitting close to a sixty-year career.
Book details
- Genre
- Literary Fiction
- Released
- 24 February 2026
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Featured on
- 24 February 2026
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