War of the End of the World A Novel

Name: War of the End of the World A Novel
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ISBN: 9780312427986

ISBN-10: 0312427980

ISBN-13: 9780312427986

Edition: N/A

Authors: Mario Vargas Llosa, Helen Lane

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Deep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no money, no taxation, no marriage, no census. Canudos is a cauldron for the revolutionary spirit in its purest form--a state with all the potential for a true, libertarian paradise--and one the Brazilian government is determined to crush at any cost. In perhaps his most ambitious and tragic novel, Mario Vargas Llosa tells his own version of the real story of Canudos, inhabiting characters on both sides of the massive, cataclysmic battle between…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 7/22/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 5.62" wide x 8.23" long x 1.05" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English