Books Details
Author : Mario Vargas Llosa Pages : 276 pages Publisher : Picador USA Language
: eng ISBN-10 : 0312427255 ISBN-13 : 9780312427252
Books Descriptions
In a remote Andean village, three men have disappeared. Peruvian Army
corporal Lituma and his deputy Tom?s 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 bodies of the missing men. To pass the time, and
to cope with their homesickness, Tom?s entertains Lituma nightly with the
sensuous, surreal tale of his precarious love affair with a wayward prostitute. His
stories are intermingled with the ongoing mystery of the missing men.Death in
the Andes is an atmospheric suspense story and a political allegory, a panoramic
view of contemporary Peru from one of the world's great novelists.
