Death in the Andes, (Paperback)

from cequillo

Jim sent me some books last week and included in that wonderful package was Death In the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa. This is not an author I ever would have turned my attentions to on my own, and that's one of the reasons I love this place, because so many great authors would pass me by if it we...

from purplehena

This was my first taste of Vargas-Llosa, and it was interesting to say the least. This novel starts off kind of slow, but it gets better as the reader becomes more and more curious about what exactly has happened (and is going on) and as the characters become more and more intriguing.

from shawnd

This wandering, twisted, semi-mystery, semi-thriller shows off its best side perhaps in the romantic subplot it weaves between a lady of ill-begotten means that becomes the object of worship of a young adjutant. The adjutant steals the show as it were from the Corporal trying to solve a mystery o...

from shawnd

This wandering, twisted, semi-mystery, semi-thriller shows off its best side perhaps in the romantic subplot it weaves between a lady of ill-begotten means that becomes the object of worship of a young adjutant. The adjutant steals the show as it were from the Corporal trying to solve a mystery o...

from Andi182

This is the first book i've read of Llosa, recently awarded with Literature's Nobel. I have always felt fascinated with South American countries, like Peru and Chile. This book remembers me the origin of that fascination. It tells the story of two men, civilian guards, in Naccos, a little village...