The Story Teller Author:Mario Vargas LLosa The book follows the destiny of the Peruvian Jew Saul Zuratas--an outsider by ethnicity and by appearance--and imagines his transformation from a conscience-stricken modern man obsessed with the survival of the pre-modern peoples of the Amazon into a member of the Machiguenga tribe; indeed, their chronicler, thier voice. Part Dostoevsky's Princ... more »e Myshkin, part a character out of Kafka, Saul is one of the most moving and extraordinary people Vargas Llosa has ever created, an incarnation of conscience in a conscienceless time. Always an able cartographer of the modern, in THE STORYTELLER Vargas Llosa depicts a world we have lost, the world of our origins.« less