Lima - Post Report Question and Answers
Do you recommend any books or movies about this city/country for those who are interested in learning more?
The Peru Reader, the Dancer Upstairs, Death in the Andes, the Chef's Table episode about Virgilio Martinez - Dec 2024
If your Spanish is up for it, read Vargas Llosa. - Jul 2022
Mario Vargas Llosa: The Dream of the Celt (for adult readers on the Amazon rubber boom),
Wade Davis: One River (on coca, rubber, Amazon communities),
Adrian Forsythe and Ken Miata: Tropical Nature (for anyone who plans to visit the Amazon),
Elizabeth Fagg Olds: Women of the Four Winds (One of four biographies is about Annie Smith Peck, a mountaineer who climbed Huascaran, Peru's highest peak in a "race" to discover the continent's highest peak).
- Oct 2018
The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers)
The typical tour books - Lonely Planet, Fodor's, etc. Novels by Mario Vargas Llosa - Nobel Literature Prize winner. - May 2015
Anything by Mario Vargas Llosa. - Mar 2014
Here's a link to some great recommendations: http://www.frommers.com/destinations/peru/0814020273.html - Aug 2013
Anything by Mario Vargas LLosa (magical realism), Ciro Alegria (indigenous topics), Garcilaso de la Vega (colonial accounts) - Jan 2012
Mario Vargas Llosa, and a passage in Moby Dick about Lima. - Jul 2010
Check out the web site "Living in Peru" for news of general interest. It's in English. - Jun 2010
Mario Vargas Llosa is a prominent author who was raised in Peru. Any of his fiction that takes place in Peru is worth reading. - Apr 2008
