The family is both a refuge and a prison; we cannot fully es... - Mario Vargas Llosa

"The family is both a refuge and a prison; we cannot fully escape either role."

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Novelist Peruvian Born 1936 (age 90)

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"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures."

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