Alfonso, the eleven-year-old son of Don Rigoberto, with his peculiar sexual fixations for his age. Doña Lucrecia, beautiful and voluptuous, vulnerable in her relationships with her ancestor. Don Rigoberto himself, with his secret notebooks in which he humorously analyzes the range of individual potentials of each person.
Luxury hotels and restaurants in the U.S., in Paris and Venice, transvestite and disreputable cabarets in Mexico and Buenos Aires, magical beaches in Lima, journeys on the Concorde and the Orient Express.
The ironic perspective of a great contemporary writer on a typical family situation, as well as a unique gallery on modern eroticism and its contradictory laws. Perhaps the most talked-about novel by Vargas Llosa. [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
