Well, NLR in the early 90's published a positive review of Llosa's novel, " The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta." (Good thing I looked up the title, Kelley, was blanking on it was typing The Lost Dream of !...) by James Dunkerley. Collected later in, " Political Suicide In Latin America And Othe Essays, " published by Verso. He also has a humongous new book from Verso, "Americana: The Americas in the World around 1850." Michael Pugliese
Synopsis Set in the midst of a deteriorating Peru, this novel "chronicles the narrator's attempt to reconstruct the story of a Trotskyist revolutionary. Alejandro Mayta and his abortive insurrection in the Andes of the late 1950s are seen through the eyes of the people who knew him. While investigating his story, the narrator discovers not one 'real life' of Alejandro Mayta but instead the confusions of history. The book . . . {seeks to} evoke the world of the Latin American left, not just of the past but of the present as well." (Publisher's note) Originally published in Spain in 1984 under the title La Historiade Mayta.