B004QGYWNU EBOK (12 page)

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