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Edith Grossman and
Mario Vargas Llosa
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Picador USA
Publication date
October 2, 2007
Pages
288
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780312427252
ISBN-10
0312427255
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.50 by 8.25 in.
Weight
0.56 lbs.
Original list price
$16.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Set in an isolated, rundown community in the Peruvian Andes, a part mystery, part political allegory follows a series of disappearances that involve the Shining Path guerrillas and a local couple who performs Dionysian sacrifices. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
Editions
Hardcover
from Farrar Straus & Giroux (February 1, 1996)
9780374140014 | details & prices | 275 pages | 6.50 × 9.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $24.00
About: 'In this novel, simultaneous plot lines ranging from an investigation by Corporal Lituma of a mysterious disappearance, to his deputy's love affair with a prostitute, to an Andean community terrorized by Shining Path guerrillas, and the alternating first- and third-person narrators all obscure coherence.
About: 'In this novel, simultaneous plot lines ranging from an investigation by Corporal Lituma of a mysterious disappearance, to his deputy's love affair with a prostitute, to an Andean community terrorized by Shining Path guerrillas, and the alternating first- and third-person narrators all obscure coherence.
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Picador USA (October 2, 2007)
9780312427252 | details & prices | 288 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.56 lbs | List price $16.00
About: Set in an isolated, rundown community in the Peruvian Andes, a part mystery, part political allegory follows a series of disappearances that involve the Shining Path guerrillas and a local couple who performs Dionysian sacrifices.
About: Set in an isolated, rundown community in the Peruvian Andes, a part mystery, part political allegory follows a series of disappearances that involve the Shining Path guerrillas and a local couple who performs Dionysian sacrifices.
Reprint edition from Penguin USA (February 1, 1997)
9780140262155 | details & prices | 5.50 × 7.75 × 0.25 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $15.00
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