The Cubs and Other Stories is Mario Vargas Llosa\'s only volume of short fiction available in English.
Innovative in style and technique, it is a work of both p.
Cuellar and his friends, and of P.
P.\'s bizarre accident and tragic coming of age.
The title story, "The Cubs," tells the story of the carefree boyhood of P.
P.
Vargas Llosa\'s domain is the Peru of male youth and machismo, where life\'s dramas play themselves out on the soccer field, the dance floor, and on street corners.
The Cubs and Other Stories is Mario Vargas Llosa\'s only volume of short fiction available in English