Conversation in the Cathedral: A Haunting Exploration of Dictatorship and Identity in 1950s Peru

Synopsis

"mario vargas llosa is one of the master storytellers of our time. " — chicago tribunefrom the winner of the nobel prize in literature comes a haunting novel about power, corruption, and the complex search for identity. Conversation in the cathedral takes place in 1950s peru during the dictatorship of manuel a. Odría. Over beers and a sea of freely spoken words, the conversation flows between two individuals, santiago and ambrosia, who talk of their tormented lives and of the overall degradation and frustration that has slowly taken over their town.