Death in the Andes - Softcover

Vargas Llosa, Mario; Grossman, Edith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140262156 ISBN 13: 9780140262155

Publisher: Penguin, 1997

Synopsis

A controversial novel which won Spain's Planeta Prize in 1993. Set in an isolated, run-down community in the Andes, it is part detective story and part political allegory. It offers a panoramic view of Peruvian society, of the country's recent political violence, and of its cultural heritage.

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Review:

A complex, gripping and disturbing book ... a peculiar and fascinating story. (Daily Telegraph)

He is a great storyteller, who combines high seriousness with lightness of touch, and this is without doubt another of his great stories. (The Times)

Often comic, always surprising ... Vargas Llosa mixes absurdity, brutality, fantasy and precise observation in a way that few writers can. (Evening Standard)

Unputdownable and unforgettable, Death in the Andes is his most forcible response yet to the country ... whose horrors and splendours continue to haunt his imagination. (Sunday Times)

Peru's best novelist - one of the world's best. (John Updike New Yorker)

Book Description:

Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa tells the story of a series of mysterious disappearances from an isolated community in the Peruvian Andes, involving Shining Path guerrillas and a cannibalistic local couple - a work of powerful narrative drive from the Nobel Prize-winning South American novelist.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0140262156
• ISBN 13: 9780140262155
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288