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Mario Vargas Llosa / The Discreet Hero - A Novel / 2015, FSG / 1st/1st Hardcover

Description: The latest masterpiece—perceptive, funny, insightful, affecting—from the Nobel Prize–winning author Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa’s newest novel, The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to intersect: neat, endearing Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in Piura, Peru, who finds himself the victim of blackmail; and Ismael Carrera, a successful owner of an insurance company in Lima, who cooks up a plan to avenge himself against the two lazy sons who want him dead. Felícito and Ismael are, each in his own way, quiet, discreet rebels: honorable men trying to seize control of their destinies in a social and political climate where all can seem set in stone, predetermined. They are hardly vigilantes, but each is determined to live according to his own personal ideals and desires—which means forcibly rising above the pettiness of their surroundings. The Discreet Hero is also a chance to revisit some of our favorite players from previous Vargas Llosa novels: Sergeant Lituma, Don Rigoberto, Doña Lucrecia, and Fonchito are all here in a prosperous Peru. Vargas Llosa sketches Piura and Lima vividly—and the cities become not merely physical spaces but realms of the imagination populated by his vivid characters. A novel whose humor and pathos shine through in Edith Grossman’s masterly translation, The Discreet Hero is another remarkable achievement from the finest Latin American novelist at work today. Series: n/aHardcover: 326 pagesPrinting: 1stPublisher: FSG (2015)Language: EnglishCondition: Fine (See Condition Notes)Condition Notes: 1st Edition, 1st print hardcover in unclipped jacket. (Possible advance readers copy, as letter from publisher also included with book.) Black boards, gilt lettering. Text and pages clean and unmarked. Jacket protected by a Brodart adjustable jacket cover. A nice copy.

Price: 30 USD

Location: Advance, North Carolina

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Restocking Fee: No

Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer

All returns accepted: Returns Accepted

Item must be returned within: 30 Days

Refund will be given as: Money Back

Year Printed: 2015

Modified Item: No

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Topic: Novels

Binding: Hardcover

Region: South America

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa

Subject: Literature & Fiction

Original/Facsimile: Original

Language: English

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG)

Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket

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