Death in the Andes A Novel

Name: Death in the Andes A Novel
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ISBN: 9780312427252

ISBN-10: 0312427255

ISBN-13: 9780312427252

Edition: N/A

Authors: Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman, Mario Vargas Llosa

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In a remote Andean village, three men have disappeared. Peruvian Army corporal Lituma and his deputy Tomás have been dispatched to investigate, and to guard the town from the Shining Path guerrillas, whom they presume are responsible. But the townspeople resent and mistrust them, and Lituma is baffled by their mystical practices as well as by reports of violent deaths nearby. To pass the time, and to cope with their homesickness, Tomás entertains Lituma nightly with the sensuous, surreal tale of his precarious love affair with a wayward prostitute. Evocatively intermingling the corporeal and the spiritual, a suspense story and political allegory, Mario Vargas Llosa offers a panoramic view…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 10/2/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.92" wide x 7.86" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English