Death in the Andes

Death in the Andes
Death in the Andes  
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1st edition (Spanish)
Author(s) Mario Vargas Llosa
Original title Lituma en los Andes
Country Peru
Language Spanish
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Planeta
Publication date February 1, 1997
Media type Print
Pages 288 p.
ISBN 8408010476
OCLC Number 36562390

Death in the Andes (Lituma en los Andes) is a 1993 novel by the Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa. It follows the character Lituma, from Who Killed Palomino Molero?, after being transferred to the rural town of Naccos.

Contents

Plot

Peruvian police investigate a death; was it the terrucos of the Maoist Shining Path, or something even more terrible?

Themes

This novel examines the tactics and motivations of the Maoists, but situates their violence in the context of an older world where life is brutal and in a society which is on the very fringe of the modern world.

References

External links

v · d · eWorks by Mario Vargas Llosa
Novels
The Time of the Hero (1963) · The Green House (1966) · Conversation in the Cathedral (1969) · Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1973) · Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977) · The War of the End of the World (1981) · The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (1984) · Who Killed Palomino Molero? (1986) · The Storyteller (1987) · In Praise of the Stepmother (1988) · Death in the Andes (1993) · The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (1997) · The Feast of the Goat (2000) · The Way to Paradise (2003) · The Bad Girl (2006)  · The Dream of the Celt (2010)
Short story collection
The Cubs and Other Stories (1959)
Essays
Essay collections
A Writer's Reality (1991) · A Fish in the Water (1993) · Making Waves (1997) · Letters to a Young Novelist (1997) · The Language of Passion (2001)

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