Death in the Andes: A Novel

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa

Brand: Vargas Llosa, Mario/ Grossman, Edith

Edition: 1st

Number Of Pages: 276

Publisher: Picador

Details:

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.

EAN: 9780312427252

Release Date: 02-10-2007

Package Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches

Languages: English