In Praise of the Stepmother

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, this classic novel erotically explores the relationships in one family.

Mario Vargas Llosa lures readers into a passionate world of family life and erotic love with the story of Don Rigoberto, his second wife, Lucretia, and Rigoberto’s prepubescent son, Alfonso. Although the group appears to be a happy household, within this small constellation lurk the shad...