This novel by Mario Vargas Llosa is an exploration of the myths and legends man creates to make sense of the world and his place in it. The chapters alternate between ones narrated by a Peruvian in Florence who spots a friend from years before in a photograph of Machiguenga tribespeople, and accounts of the tribe's mythic tales. As he has done effectively in many of his novels, Vargas Llosa eventually brings the two strands together. Here, however, the mythic chapters never really ignite the reader's imagination.
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