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"In this novel, simultaneous plot lines ranging from an investigation by Corporal Lituma of a mysterious disappearance, to his deputy's love affair with a prostitute, to an Andean community terrorized by Shining Path guerrillas, and the alternating first- and third-person narrators all obscure coherence. Grossman's lazy translation needlessly retains large doses of original Spanish lexicon. An introduction, maps, and a translator's note are badly needed to orient readers not familiar with Peru"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
| Size | | Height: | 7.8 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.2 in | | Weight: | 7.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"...[T]here is a spookiness about this novel, one that is hard to convey, But Vargas Llosa's meticulously realistic descriptions of this high unforgiving landscape and of the haunted people who perch there for the span of their lives ultimately merge into a surreal portrait of a place both specific and universal."
Time - Paul Gray (02/12/1996)
"Vargas Llosa seems to find the highlands emblematic of disintegrating civilization and a return to barbarism. Although he focuses on its shadowy side, he succeeds in evoking the atmosphere of the austere, mysterious Andes."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Thomas Christensen (02/11/1996)
"This is well-knit social criticism as trenchant as any by Balzac or Flaubert... this is a novel that plumbs the heart of the Americas.... 'Death in the Andes' is proof that Vargas Llosa's true power lies not in his political life but in his prose. The book is also evidence that the violent past that haunts the hemisphere still lingers starkly in Peru. It is a legacy Vargas Llosa has always seen clearly."
Washington Post Book World - Marie Arana-Ward (02/25/1996)
"A terrific novel: dramatic and varied, rich in incident, characterization, and atmosphere, and disturbingly forthright in its political and human implications. One of Vargas Llosa's best books in years."
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