Discreet Hero - Hardcover

Llosa, Mario Vargas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571310702 ISBN 13: 9780571310708

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2013

Synopsis

Set in Peru, Llosas novel tells the stories of two men whose lives are destined to intersect: one is a small-town businessman who is being blackmailed, the other a successful company owner in Lima with two sons who want him dead. Translated by Edith Grossman.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

“In the star-studded world of the Latin American novel, Mario Vargas Llosa is a supernova.” ―Raymond Sokolov, The Wall Street Journal

“[A] singular all-star performance . . . An exquisite concoction, a delicious melodrama of sex and betrayal, love and revenge . . . Vargas Llosa’s novel is swift, seamless, and as structurally symmetrical as a diamond.” ―The Washington Post

“Often funny; you turn the pages with relish; it offers plenty to think about and admire. . . . [The Discreet Hero] immerses you in the way you hope any novel will immerse you.”―The New York Times Book Review

“Simultaneously exotic and familiar in the way that all great literature seems to be. Its ease is that of a mastery playing at his craft, using danger, fear, evil, and empathy to carry the reader along. . . . Mario Vargas Llosa knows exactly what he’s doing.”―Los Angeles Times

"An energetic book with a more straightforward narrative method than almost any other Vargas Llosa." ―The New Yorker

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0571310702
• ISBN 13: 9780571310708
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 326