“C’mon,” he said to him. “We’ll have a drink while Leonor fixes up your knees.”
Books by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Cubs and Other Stories
The Time of the Hero
The Green House
Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
Conversation in the Cathedral
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
The War of the End of the World
The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
The Perpetual Orgy
Who Killed Palomino Molero?
The Storyteller
English translation © 1979 by Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc. “The Cubs” was originally published in Spanish as Los Cachorros, © 1967 by Editorial Lumen Barcelona, by Industrias Gráficas Francisco Casamajo
The remaining stories in this collection first appeared in Spanish in Los Jefes, © 1965 by Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Jorge Álvares Colección Narradores Americanos
Published originally in hardcover by Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 978-0-374-52194-3
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Vargas Llosa, Mario.
The cubs and other stories.
Translation of Los jefes.
CONTENTS: The cubs.—The leaders.—The grandfather.—A visitor.—On
Sunday.—The challenge.—The younger brother.
I. Title
PZ4.V297Cu [PQ8498.32.A65] 863 78-20217