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Original Title:	Lituma en los Andes
ISBN:	057117549X (ISBN13: 9780571175499)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Tomás Carreño, Corporal Lituma
Setting:	Peru (Perú)(Peru)
Literary Awards:	Premio Planeta (1993), Premio San Clemente for Novela Castelá (1995)

Death in the Andes

Mario Vargas Llosa

Paperback | Pages: 322 pages

Rating: 3.69 | 5989 Users | 532 Reviews

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Title	:	Death in the Andes
Author	:	Mario Vargas Llosa
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 322 pages
Published	:	1996 by Faber and Faber (first published 1993)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Latin American. Novels

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In an isolated community in the Peruvian Andes, a series of mysterious disappearances has occurred. Army corporal Lituma and his deputy Tom�s believe the Shining Path guerrillas are responsible, but the townspeople have their own ideas about the forces that claimed the bodies of the missing men. This riveting novel is filled with unforgettable characters, among them disenfranchised Indians, eccentric local folk, and a couple performing strange cannibalistic sacrifices. As the investigation moves forward, Tom�s entertains Lituma with the surreal tale of a precarious love affair. Death in the Andes is both a fascinating detective novel and an insightful political allegory. Mario Vargas Llosa offers a panoramic view of Peruvian society, from the recent social upheaval to the cultural influences in its past.

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Awesome book. Mario Vargas Llosa blends folk tales with a love story behind the political screen of Shining Path terrorism. How did he do it? The love story (and its a great love story) emerges from the young guard Tomas who tells Corporal Lituma as he has investigates three mysterious disappearances of local people including the mute young man he befriended. Constantly threatening them is the terror of the Shining Path guerrillas who threaten to kill everything and everyone in their path. To

The charge that all revolutions are bound to devour its own children is one of the oldest and most common admonitions against the peoples collectively rising up to effect massive social transformations. First heard in the aftermath of the French Revolution with the Jacobins falling under their own Guillotines, this discourse has become common fare in the 20th Century.Lumping together the nightmarish experience under all victorious and defeated revolutionary movements from the Stalinist show

Isolation The story centres around two policemen posted to a remote region of the Peruvian Andes near Naccos. They are investigating a series of disappearances in a road construction camp and amongst the comuneros, (Indians from the traditional community) where there is a discouraging lack of evidence or support. The missing are a mute, an albino, and the foreman of the construction site. Is this significant in itself as somehow undesirables were targeted or is it a coincidence that can

This was an excellent story with great characters and captivating narration. Lituma is now stationed in the mountains in Naccos (after being ejected from Piura after Palomino Molera and needs to solve a triple homicide which superficially looks like it may be the work of the Sendero Luminoso terrorists (whom we also gets glimpses at during the book through some of their victims). The pace never lets up and we also are treated to local folklore like in The Storyteller which plays an important

The most fascinating part of the novel for me was the way Vargas Llosa plays with time and space as he tells various, intersecting stories. I have never experienced a writer who could accomplish telling a story in two different moments simultaneously in such a flawless way. The novel begins with some gritty stories of naive travelers who fall victim to Sendero Luminoso revolutionaries and then transitions into an exploration of the more sinister elements of indigenous cosmovision, including the

This is not only the first book by Mario Vargas Llosa I have ever read, it is also, to the extent that I can recall, the first book about Peru I have ever read. Up to now my reading in Spanish American literature has been limited to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda, an author whose bona fides I suspect because, after all, he only has two names.I enjoyed the book, enjoyed reading it, followed it easily, saw how the minor episodes and activities and characters built the

This book doesn't just tell a story. It is told through stories, through storytelling, and this makes all the stories of Peru, even those beyond the confines of the page, one story. Mario Vargas Llosa doesn't give a damn about time or space or traditional plot; he doesnt care about making the reader comfortable or making reading easy; he cares about connections, and he makes them however he damn well pleases.Death in the Andes follows three stories (for a while). The first follows Corporal