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‘I dedicate my silence to you’: Vargas Llosa returns to Peru with his last novel before retiring
After a writing career of over 60 years, the Nobel Prize winner says goodbye with a story in which fiction is inserted into an essay about criolla music as a magical national solution for the country’s disunity and inequality