This work by the renowned Peruvian author allows us to glimpse into the key years of his youth until his candidacy for President of Peru. These are stark, unadorned truths revealed through his hypnotic and masterly prose. The strained relationship between the author and his harsh, violent father; the discovery of his calling as a writer as a means to oppose parental authoritarianism, the precocious bohemia, the hasty wedding with "la tia Julia" ("aunt Julia") and the short, yet intense, political career of the writer. Description in Spanish: La obra del escritor peruano se sustenta en numerosos acontecimientos personales que transcurrieron en su juventud. La dificil relacion con un padre duro y violento, el nacimiento de la vocacion de escritor como oposicion a esa autoridad, los anos del colegio militar Leoncio Prado, la precoz vida bohemia, la precipitada boda con <> o la existencia real de <>. Ademas, y a modo de contrapeso, conocemos la corta pero intensa carrera politica del escritor. Esos tres anos que transcurrieron desde la improvisada movilizacion popular de la Plaza de San Martin en oposicion a la politica de Alan Garcia hasta la definitiva derrota ante Fujimori.