Authors: Mario Vargas Llosa
The Cubs and Other Stories
The Time of the Hero
The Green House
Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
Conversation in the Cathedral
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
The War of the End of the World
The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
The Perpetual Orgy
Who Killed Palomino Molero?
The Storyteller
A Fish in the Water
Death in the Andes
Making Waves
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto
The Feast of the Goat
IN PRAISE OF THE STEPMOTHER
. Copyright © 1988 by Mario Vargas Llosa. English translation copyright © 1990 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address Picador USA, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10010.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Vargas Llosa, Mario.
[Elogio de la madrastra. English]
In praise of the stepmother / Mario Vargas Llosa; translated by Helen Lane.
Translation of: Elogio de la madrastra.
ISBN: 978-0-312-42130-4
I. Title.
PQ8498.32.A65E413
863—dc20
1990
90-3018
First published in Spanish under the title
Elogio de la madrastra
First published in English by Farrar, Straus and Giroux