Touchstones

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 Touchstones is a landmark collection of essays from one of the world''s leading writers and intellectuals.