Vargas Llosa's last declaration of love to his cousin Patricia: he dedicates the novel he wrote while he was with Isabel Preysler

“To Patricia.” I dedicate my silence to him, the new novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, is dedicated to his cousin and ex-wife, Patricia Llosa. The book of the Nobel Prize in Literature, which will arrive in bookstores on October 26th, is not only a declaration of love for Peruvian music—the waltzes, sailors, polkas and huainos—and to the folklore of his country, but also to his wife for half a century. “It's a beautiful and well-deserved gesture,” th…