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_aPQ 8498.32.A65 _b.D631 2015 |
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_aVargas Llosa, Mario, _d-1936 _9125379 |
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_aThe discreet hero / _cMario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. |
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_aNew York : _bPicador Farrar, Straus and Giroux, _c2015 |
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_a326 pages _c21 cm. |
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_aunmediated _2rdamedia |
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_avolume _2rdacarrier |
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| 500 | _aOriginally published in Spain as El heroe discreto by Alguara Ediciones. | ||
| 520 | _a and Ismael Carrera, a successful owner of an insurance company in Lima, who cooks up a plan to avenge himself against the two lazy sons who want him dead. Felícito and Ismael are, each in his own way, quiet, discreet rebels: honorable men trying to seize control of their destinies in a social and political climate where all can seem set in stone, predetermined. They are hardly vigilantes, but each is determined to live according to his own personal ideals and desires-which means forcibly rising above the pettiness of their surroundings. The Discreet Hero is also a chance to revisit some of our favorite players from previous Vargas Llosa novels: Sergeant Lituma, Don Rigoberto, Doña Lucrecia, and Fonchito are all here in a prosperous Peru. Vargas Llosa sketches Piura and Lima vividly-and the cities become not merely physical spaces but realms of the imagination populated by his vivid characters. A novel whose humor and pathos shine through in Edith Grossman's masterly translation, The Discreet Hero is another remarkable achievement from the finest Latin American novelist at work today. --Amazon.com | ||
| 520 | _aA tale of two cities-Piura and Lima-rocked by scandal, and the disintegrating bonds of loyalty between the generations Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa's newest novel follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to intersect: neat, endearing Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in Piura, Peru, who finds himself the victim of blackmail | ||
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_aExtortion _9125387 |
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_aGrossman, Edith, _9101125 |
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