Vargas Llosa, Mario (1936-)

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


Peru----Fiction

PQ8498.32.A65 / H4713 2015

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