This text has two narrators: one is a middle-aged Peruvian man who has traveled to Italy in order to "forget Peru and the Peruvians for a while," and the other is, apparently, a Machiguengan storyteller. Although it is never stated explicitly, it is implied (and the first narrator comes to believe) that the storyteller is a man named Saul Zuratas, an old friend from the first narrator's childhood and college years.
Chapters narrated by the storyteller cover a range of topics from Machiguengan cosmogony to folktales to cultural practices. It is a major part of their culture that they keep moving, keep walking, maintaining a nomadic kind of lifestyle, or else, they believe, the Sun will fail.
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Eventually, the narrator learns that Saul and his father have moved to Israel (they are Jewish). However, many years later, he discovers that this is not true, that Saul's father died in Peru and was buried there, and he begins to formulate a theory that Saul abandoned Peru, Judaism, the university, and his own identity, in order to live with the Machiguenga. A late chapter narrated by the storyteller, in which he references his own purplish facial birthmark, seems to confirm this, but it is never explicit. Through the text, the first narrator has spoken to others who have had or himself had difficulty getting the Machiguenga to discuss their storytellers. Strangely, it seems to be an incredibly taboo subject. Once the narrator begins to piece Saul's history together, he realizes that Saul must have asked the Machiguenga to keep the secret of his identity. The book ends with the narrator's near-certainty that the man he sees in the photograph in Florence is truly Saul, having been embraced by the Machiguenga and made a part of their community.
Interwoven into the account of Saúl Zuratas are chapters written in the voice of the Machiguengan hablador, or traditional storyteller. In these chapters, Vargas Llosa employs a language that is at once naïve and wise, suiting Machiguengan lore, beliefs, and rituals. The storyteller describes Kientibakori, the spirit of evil; Kashiri, the sometimes benevolent; the seripigari, or wise men; the Viracochas, or dangerous outsiders; and Tasurinchi, the Machiguengan creator whose name is also used to refer to any Machiguengan man.
In the following chapter, the storyteller relates how he found that vocation. He refers somewhat cryptically to his birthmark, his previous life elsewhere, his acceptance among the Tasurinchis, and his transformation from a studious listener to an itinerant teller of stories. It is strongly suggested, though not explicitly articulated, that the storyteller is Saúl Zuratas. 2ff7e9595c
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