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← Back to all issuesGranta 36: Vargas Llosa for President
Summer 1991
The novelist’s personal account of his campaign for the presidency of Peru. Plus: Alvaro Vargas Llosa as his father’s press officer, Sergio Ramirez on the end of the Sandinistas, George Steiner on the end of the dream of communism, Graham Swift, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow (part three).
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The Press Officer
Alvaro Vargas Llosa
‘The threat of Fujimori was well hidden. There was nothing we could do: the die was cast.’
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The Consultant
Mark Malloch Brown
‘Let the old politicians run against you. It will restore your political independence and make you unbeatable.’
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In the Andes
Sergio Larrain
Sergio Larrain’s photographs of the Andes for Granta 36: Vargas Llosa for President.
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Election Night in Nicaragua
Sergio Ramirez
‘There was no room in our dreams for another war.’
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Sitting on Top of the World
T. Coraghessan Boyle
‘It was like floating untethered, drifting with the clouds, like being cupped in the hands of God.’
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Plastic
Graham Swift
‘Sorting out the world! He should have sorted out himself and his own jeopardized household.’
