The discreet hero ; a novel
/ Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
- First American edition.
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2015
- 326 p. ; 24 cm
A successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru. The Discreet Hero is also a chance to revisit some of our favorite players from previous Vargas Llosa novels: Sergeant Lituma, Don Rigoberto, Doņa Lucrecia, and Fonchito are all here in a prosperous Peru.
Translated from the Spanish to English.
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Business men---Peru---Fiction Extortion ----Fiction