The War of the End of the World by Llosa, Mario Vargas

War of the End of the World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312427986)

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The War of the End of the World by Llosa, Mario Vargas

War of the End of the World

$30.00
The War of the End of the World by Llosa, Mario Vargas

War of the End of the World

$30.00
Format: Paperback
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Deep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no money, no taxation, no marriage, no census. Canudos is a cauldron for the revolutionary spirit in its purest form, a state with all the potential for a true, libertarian paradise--and one the Brazilian government is determined to crush at any cost.

In perhaps his most ambitious and tragic novel, Mario Vargas Llosa tells his own version of the real story of Canudos, inhabiting characters on both sides of the massive, cataclysmic battle between the society and government troops. The resulting novel is a fable of Latin American revolutionary history, an unforgettable story of passion, violence, and the devastation that follows from fanaticism.

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
ISBN-10: 0312427980
ISBN-13: 9780312427986
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 07/22/2008
Pages: 576
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.34h x 5.58w x 1.00d
By Mario Vargas Llosa
By Mario Vargas Llosa
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MARIO VARGAS LLOSA was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010 "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." Peru's foremost writer, he has been awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor, and the Jerusalem Prize. His many works include The Feast of the Goat, The Bad Girl, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The War of the End of the World, and The Storyteller. He lives in London.

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