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Death in the Andes
Death in the Andes
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman (Translator)
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 bodie...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780140262155
ISBN-10: 0140262156
Publication Date: 2/1/1997
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Penguin Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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In a remote Andean village, three men have disappeared. Peruvian Army corporal Lituma and deputy Tomas investigate, but the townspeople resent and mistrust them. To pass the time, Tomas entertains Lituma with the tale of his affair with a prostitute, evocatively mingling past and present, the corporeal and the spiritual, asuspense story and a political allegory of contemporary Peru.


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