The discreet hero
A successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru.
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| Language: | English Spanish |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2015.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Vargas Llosa, Mario, |d 1936- | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The discreet hero / |c Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. |
| 250 | |a First American edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Farrar, Straus and Giroux, |c 2015. | |
| 300 | |a 326 pages ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 520 | |a A successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru. | ||
| 520 | |a "The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to intersect: neat, endearing Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in Piura, Peru, who finds himself the victim of blackmail; and Ismael Carrera, a successful owner of an insurance company in Lima, who cooks up a plan to avenge himself against the two lazy sons who want him dead. Felícito and Ismael are, each in his own way, quiet, discreet rebels: honorable men trying to seize control of their destinies in a social and political climate where all can seem set in stone, predetermined. They are hardly vigilantes, but each is determined to live according to his own personal ideals and desires--which means forcibly rising above the pettiness of their surroundings. The Discreet Hero is also a chance to revisit some of our favorite players from previous Vargas Llosa novels: Sergeant Lituma, Don Rigoberto, Doña Lucrecia, and Fonchito are all here in a prosperous Peru. Vargas Llosa sketches Piura and Lima vividly--and the cities become not merely physical spaces but realms of the imagination populated by his vivid characters" -- |c provided by publisher. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Businessmen |z Peru |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Extortion |v Fiction. | |
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