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The discreet hero

Summary: "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" --

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  • ISBN: 0374146748
  • ISBN: 9780374146740
  • Physical Description: 326 pages ; 24 cm
    print
  • Edition: First American edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Subject:
Peru -- Fiction
Extortion -- Fiction
Businessmen -- Peru -- Fiction
Genre:
Tragicomedy.

Available copies

  • 20 of 20 copies available at Westchester Library System.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 20 total copies.
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Bronxville Public Library FICTION VARGAS LLOSA (Text) 31004151411027 Fiction Available -
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Croton Free Library FICTION/VARGAS LLOSA (Text) 31006151455540 Fiction Available -
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Hastings-on-Hudson Public Library FICTION VARGAS LLOSA (Text) 31011151251428 Fiction Available -
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