603. The Cubs and Other Stories

The Cubs and Other Stories
Mario Vargas Llhosa

1967
Around 140 pages

Have I ruined my mind with horror movies, or is that book cover absolutely terrifying? 

We once again defy the gods with a short story collection on this List. The stories concern the maturation of young boys in Peru. Boys are pretty gross, and there were many...unsavory elements in this collection. Which is realistic, obviously, but not something I want to read about.

I don't have much to say about this one, its immediate placement after Garcia Marquez's masterpiece doesn't do it any favors. Skippable.

RATING: **---

Intersting Facts:

Vargas Llhosa was supportive of the Castro regime until the imprisonment of the poet Heberto Padilla for a month in 1971. Vargas Llosa, along with other intellectuals of the time, wrote to Castro protesting the Cuban political system and its imprisonment of the artist.

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