Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the lima of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted...Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the lima of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals.