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Title: The Storyteller
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Age level: High School, especially World Civilization classes
Recommended by: Mary Marshall, Falls Church High School, Virginia
Summary: In The Storyteller
by Mario Vargas Llosa, a writer examines a photograph of a tribal storyteller deep within the Amazon jungle. He recollects that this man is an old School friend named Saul Zuratas. As the writer remembers his friend, the reader is caught up in Saul's transformation from a member of our modern world to the voice and chronicler of the primitive Machiguenga tribe.
Teaching suggestions:
This book is a great choice for a unit on culture/mythology/heritage. It can be used as one of a number of novel circle selections with comparison/contrast essays. It also lays a nice foundation for student exploration of personal cultural heritage as the novel explores tribal views of God/spiritual beings, good and evil, the afterlife, etc.
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