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    Mario Vargas Llosa

    The Bad Girl (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) We take the occasion of the publication of Mario Vargas Llosa's new novel, The Bad Girl, to air this previously unheard interview in which the great Peruvian novelist describes the effects of "El Boom" –- magic realism and its relatives -- on the literature of Latin America...

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    By Michael Silverblatt • Dec 6, 2007 • 30m Listen

    We take the occasion of the publication of Mario Vargas Llosa's new novel, The Bad Girl (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), to air this previously unheard interview in which the great Peruvian novelist describes the effects of "El Boom" –- magic realism and its relatives -- on the literature of Latin America.

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      Michael Silverblatt

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