I Give You My Silence

First published 2026

Reception

Mostly positive. 7 of 8 critics were positive or better.

Rave 4 · Positive 3 · Mixed 1 · Pan 0

“Precise, largehearted prose”

The New York Times Book Review · Michael Greenberg · Rave

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“A sweet, light story about art and idealism—and its ever-present opposite, cynicism—that is gently comic … The novel never finds its way or sustains its early energy”

ArtsFuse · David Mehegan · Mixed

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New York Review of Books · 17 September 2026

The Strange Music of Mario Vargas Llosa

When Mario Vargas Llosa announced in October 2023 that his new novel, Le dedico mi silencio—now published in English as I Give You My Silence—would be his last, I was intrigued by what that farewell to fiction might involve. How would this prodigious author of eighteen other novels—among them the…

By Ariel Dorfman

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The Guardian · 11 August 2026

I Give You My Silence by Mario Vargas Llosa review – Nobel laureate’s final novel is a love letter to Peru

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Mario Vargas Llosa, 1936–2025, Spain.

Spanish original

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Original language: Spanish
ISBN: 978-0-374-61625-0
Author: Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936–2025
Statement: I Give You My Silence / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West.

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Catalogue data checked 4 October 2026