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Also by Mario Vargas Llosa:

The Discreet Hero, March 2015
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The Dream Of The Celt, June 2012
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In Praise of Reading and Fiction, April 2011
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The War Of The End Of The World, August 2008
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Death In The Andes, October 2007
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Aunt Julia And The Scriptwriter, October 2007
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The Way To Paradise, September 2004
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The Language Of Passion: Selected Commentary, June 2004
Paperback
The Feast Of The Goat: A Novel, November 2002
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Who Killed Palomino Molero?, June 1998
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THE WAR OF THE END OF THE WORLD
By: Mario Vargas Llosa

Picador
August 2008
On Sale: July 22, 2008
576 pages
ISBN: 0312427980
EAN: 9780312427986
Paperback
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Deep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no money, no taxation, no marriage, no census. Canudos is a cauldron for the revolutionary spirit in its purest form, a state with all the potential for a true, libertarian paradise--and one the Brazilian government is determined to crush at any cost.

In perhaps his most ambitious and tragic novel, Mario Vargas Llosa tells his own version of the real story of Canudos, inhabiting characters on both sides of the massive, cataclysmic battle between the society and government troops. The resulting novel is a fable of Latin American revolutionary history, an unforgettable story of passion, violence, and the devastation that follows from fanaticism.

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PBS News Hour - June 1, 2012