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84-08-01047-6. OCLC. 36562390. Death in the Andes ( Lituma en los Andes) is a 1993 novel by the Nobel Prize -winning Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa. [1] [2] It follows the character Lituma, from Who Killed Palomino Molero?, after being transferred to the rural town of Naccos.
- Mario Vargas Llosa
- 288 p.
- 1997
- February 1, 1997
Jan 1, 2001 · Mario Vargas Llosa. 3.71. 8,241 ratings808 reviews. In an isolated community in the Peruvian Andes, a series of mysterious disappearances has occurred. Army corporal Lituma and his deputy Tomás believe the Shining Path guerrillas are responsible, but the townspeople have their own ideas about the forces that claimed the bodies of the missing men.
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Mar 4, 2011 · On the surface, "Death in the Andes" is a story about two guards/officers sent to a remote outpost in the Andes to protect the workers in a small mining town in an extremely dangerous region which the Shining Path (communist guerrillas of Peru) rules through massacres, rapes, plunder, and other terrorist acts.
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Oct 2, 2007 · Death in the Andes: A Novel. Paperback – October 2, 2007. 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.
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Sep 5, 2023 · Death in the Andes (Spanish: Lituma en los Andes) is a 1993 novel written by Peruvian author, politician, and journalist Mario Vargas Llosa. In it, he focuses on Peru’s complicated political ...
Feb 1, 1996 · Wacky plot keeps the pages turning and enduring schmaltzy romantic sequences. Share your opinion of this book. An impressive panoramic portrayal of his native country is created with masterly economy in this intriguing political detective story by the celebrated Peruvian author (In Praise of the Stepmother, 1990; the autobiography A Fish in the ...
Jan 1, 1996 · The Storyteller, a novel, was published to great acclaim in 1989. In 1990, FSG published In Praise of the Stepmother, also a bestseller. Of that novel, Dan Cryer wrote: “Mario Vargas Llosa is a writer of promethean authority, making outstanding fiction in whatever direction he turns” (Newsday).
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