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Author:

Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-

Title:

The Discreet hero / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.

Edition:

First American edition.

Publisher:

FarrarStraus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

©2015

Description:

326 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Businessmen--Fiction.
Parent and child--Fiction.
Extortion--Fiction.
Piura (Piura, Peru)--Fiction.
Lima (Peru)--Fiction.
Piura (Piura, Peru)

Other Authors:

Grossman, Edith, 1936- translator.

Other Titles:

Héroe discreto. English.

Summary:

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{u2014}which means forcibly rising above the pettiness of their surroundings.

ISBN:

0374146748 (cloth)
9780374146740 (cloth)

LCCN:

2014031209

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