The modest hero

The reserved hero Mario Vargas Llosa returns to his country again, specifically to his beloved city of Piura, where he spent a few years of his childhood, and to the capital Lima. They are the two cities that form the spatial framework of his previous Peruvian novels, from "The City and the Dogs" (1965) to "The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto," passing through "The Green House" (1965), "Conversation in the Cathedral" (1969), "Pantaleon and the Visitors" (1973), "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter" (1977), "End of the World War" (1981), "Maite's Story" (1984), "Who Killed Palomino Molero?" (1986), "In Praise of Aunt Julia" (1988), and "Littuma in the Andes Mountains" (1993).