Death in the Andes / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated by Edith Grossman.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996Edition: 1st edDescription: 275 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0374140014 (alk. paper)Uniform titles: Lituma en los Andes. English Subject(s): Peru -- FictionGenre/Form: Political fiction. | Detective and mystery stories.DDC classification: 863 LLO LOC classification: PQ8498.32.A65 | L5813 1996Review: "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. Grossman's lazy translation needlessly retains large doses of original Spanish lexicon. An introduction, maps, and a translator's note are badly needed to orient readers not familiar with Peru"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas/
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"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. Grossman's lazy translation needlessly retains large doses of original Spanish lexicon. An introduction, maps, and a translator's note are badly needed to orient readers not familiar with Peru"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
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