Translated into more than a dozen languages, this novel, set in the leoncio prado, describes adolescents striving for survival in a hostile and violent environment. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. The book was published in multiple languages including spanish, consists of 446 pages and is available in mass market paperback format. The nobel academys peter englund said vargas llosa was a divinely gifted storyteller. In 2010 he won the nobel prize in literature, for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individuals resistance, revolt, and defeat. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle device required.
Mario vargas llosa books list of books by author mario. The book is set among a community of cadets in a lima military school, and the plot is based on the authors own experiences at limas leoncio prado military academy. Check out other translated books in french, spanish languages. See all books authored by mario vargas llosa, including the feast of the goat, and death in the andes, and more on. The first edition of the novel was published in 1962, and was written by mario vargas llosa. Get cozy and expand your home library with a large online selection of books at. Captain ahabs rare books amir naghib, proprietor 111 rotunda drive stephenson, va. The novel portrays the school so scathingly that its leadership.
Mario vargas llosa audio books, best sellers, author bio. Mario vargas llosa, the peruvian author, has been awarded the 2010 nobel prize in literature. Translated to over 30 languages, this is perhaps vargas llosa s most violent book. When published, it caused such a stir that the academys authorities burned 1,000 copies of the book in protest. The 74yearold has written more than 30 novels, plays and essays, and is the first south american winner since 1982 when colombias gabriel garcia marquez triumphed. Translated to over 30 languages, this is perhaps vargas llo. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Four angry cadets have formed an inner circle in an attempt to beat the system and ward off the boredom and stifling confinement of the military academy, set off a chain of events that starts with a theft and leads to murder. At a military academy in peru in which savage initiation ceremonies, lewdness, and bullying take place, one of the most putupon cadets is thought to have revealed the name of a perpatrator of a minor crime and is shot during maneuvers shortly afterword. See all 40 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Vargas llosas prose, his use of several narrators, his use of several times and his marvelous use of comas. It was vargas llosas first novel and is set among the cadets at the leoncio prado military academy in lima, which he attended as a teenager.
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