Death in the Andes
(Paperback, Main)
Publishing Details
Death in the Andes
By (Author) Mario Vargas Llosa
Translated by Edith Grossman
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
1st July 2005
4th November 2004
Main
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
863
Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 (Australia)
Physical Properties
Paperback
256
Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 18mm
198g
Description
Set in an isolated, run-down community in the Peruvian Andes, Death in the Andes offers a panoramic view of Peruvian society: not only of the current political violence and social upheaval, but also of the country's past, and its connection to Indian culture and to pre-Hispanic mysticism.
Author Bio
Mario Vargas-Llosa was born in Peru is 1936. He is the author of some of the last half-century's most important novels, including The War of the End of the World, The Feast of the Goat, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and Conversation in the Cathedral. In 2010 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
