Download or read book The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta written by Mario Vargas Llosa and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta is an astute psychological portrait of a modern revolutionary and a searching account of an old friend's struggle to understand him. First published in English in 1986, the novel probes the long and checkered history of radical politics in Latin America.