Death in the Andes - Softcover

Llosa, Mario Vargas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312427255 ISBN 13: 9780312427252

Publisher: Picador USA, 2007

Synopsis

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 they assume are responsible. But the townspeople do not trust the officers, and they have their own ideas about what forces claimed the bodies of the missing men. 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. His stories are intermingled with the ongoing mystery of the missing men.

Death in the Andes is an atmospheric suspense story and a political allegory, a panoramic view of contemporary Peru from one of the world's great novelists.

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Review:

"Peru's best novelist--one of the world's best." --John Updike, The New Yorker

"Well-knit social criticism as trenchant as any by Balzac or Flaubert . . . This is a novel that plumbs the heart of the Americas." --The Washington Post Book World

"Remarkable . . . a fantastically picturesque landscape of Indians and llamas, snowy peaks, hunger, and violence." --Raymond Sokolov, The Wall Street Journal

"Meticulously realistic descriptions of this high, unforgiving landscape and the haunted people who perch there . . . merge into a surreal portrait of a place both specific and universal." --Time

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: Picador USA
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0312427255
• ISBN 13: 9780312427252
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288