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La ciudad y los perros / The Time of the Hero
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Punto De Lectura
Publication date August 30, 2006
Pages 444
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9788466309158
ISBN-10 8466309152
Dimensions 1.25 by 5.25 by 7.50 in.
Weight 0.65 lbs.
Original list price $12.99
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La ciudad y los perros no solamente es un ataque contra la crueldad ejercida a un grupo de jóvenes alumnos del Colegio Militar Leoncio Prado, sino también una crítica frontal al concepto erróneo de la virilidad, de sus funciones y de las consecuencias de una educación castrense malentendida. Aunada a la brutalidad propia de la vida militar, a lo largo de las páginas de esta extraordinaria novela, la vehemencia y la pasión de la juventud se desbocan hasta llegar a una furia, una rabia y un fanatismo que anulan toda sensibilidad. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Translated to over 30 languages, this is perhaps Vargas Llosa’s most violent book. Set in a military school in Lima, where an unwritten code of survival of the fittest is imposed. Here, he focuses on the brutality of military life and the strong pyramidal hierarchy that mirrors Peruvian society, where violence, exploitation and human degradation guarantee that each layer of the social pyramid maintains its place. All the conflicts of Peruvian society arise with rage and impotence in this testimonial novel in which Vargas Llosa paints a social and political picture.


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from Punto De Lectura (August 30, 2006)
9788466309158 | details & prices | 444 pages | 5.25 × 7.50 × 1.25 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $12.99
About: La ciudad y los perros no solamente es un ataque contra la crueldad ejercida a un grupo de jóvenes alumnos del Colegio Militar Leoncio Prado, sino también una crítica frontal al concepto erróneo de la virilidad, de sus funciones y de las consecuencias de una educación castrense malentendida.
from Alfaguara (February 28, 2006)
9789707702110 | details & prices | 5.50 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $24.95
2 edition from Alfaguara, S.A. Grupo Santillana, (August 1, 2001)
9788420484105 | details & prices | 483 pages | 5.25 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $24.95
from Punto De Lectura (November 1, 2000)
9788466301169 | details & prices | 560 pages | 4.50 × 7.25 × 1.50 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $12.99
About: At a military academy in Peru in which savage initiation ceremonies, lewdness, and bullying take place, one of the most put-upon cadets is thought to have revealed the name of a perpetrator of a minor crime and is shot during maneuvers shortly afterward.
from Planeta Pub Corp (September 1, 1995)
9788432200816 | details & prices | 5.25 × 7.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $16.95
About: Book by Vargas Llosa, Mario
9 edition from French & European Pubns (December 1, 1989)
9780828825832 | details & prices | 4.50 × 7.00 × 1.25 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $16.95
About: Translated into 30 languages, this is a basic book in contemporary Latin American fiction.
from Not Applicable (June 1, 1984)
9789503700709 | details & prices | List price $16.95
About: At a military academy in Peru in which savage initiation ceremonies, lewdness, and bullying take place, one of the most put-upon cadets is thought to have revealed the name of a perpetrator of a minor crime and is shot during maneuvers shortly afterward
from Seix Barral (June 1, 1983)
9788432230011 | details & prices | 4.75 × 7.50 × 1.25 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $12.95
About: At a military academy in Peru in which savage initiation ceremonies, lewdness, and bullying take place, one of the most put-upon cadets is thought to have revealed the name of a perpatrator of a minor crime and is shot during maneuvers shortly afterword

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