Death in the Andes
Autor Mario Vargas Llosa Traducere de Edith Grossmanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2007
In a remote Andean village, three men have disappeared. Peruvian Army corporal Lituma and his deputy Tomas 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, Tomas 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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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0312427255
Pagini: 275
Dimensiuni: 168 x 210 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: Picador USA
Locul publicării:New York, NY, United States
Descriere
"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.
Recenzii
"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"