by Mario Vargas Llosa (Author), Lysander Kemp (Translator), Mario Vargas Llosa (Author), Lysander Kemp (Translator)
A powerful social satire which outraged the authorities of the author's native Peru, where 1000 copies were publicly burned.
Format: Paperback
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Published: 01 Jan 2012
ISBN 10: 0571173209
ISBN 13: 9780571173204
Book Overview: The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa is 'a work of undeniable power and skill' (Sunday Telegraph) set in a military academy in Lima, focusing on a group of cadets whose pranks set of a cycle of betrayal, murder and revenge which jeopardizes the entire military hierarchy.