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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
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The Feast Of The Goat: A Novel, November 2002
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Who Killed Palomino Molero?, June 1998
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THE DISCREET HERO
By: Mario Vargas Llosa

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
March 2015
On Sale: March 10, 2015
340 pages
ISBN: 0374146748
EAN: 9780374146740
Kindle: B00MSYXJ4K
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction

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.

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