memoir

And small wonder that he wanted to write a memoir stripped of the form’s obvious scaffolding and joints: no declarations of trauma, little effort to make his life exemplify something bigger.

In his memoirs, Vargas Llosa describes his father as a terse man prone to “fits of rage.”

So far, she has published four novels, one short story collection, and one memoir.

The book is partly a memoir of his own normal childhood, and partly notes on the business and craft of writing.

Gisèle is also working on a memoir, “A Hymn to Life,” set to be published early next year, but the mother and daughter have limited communication.