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The discreet hero / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
A successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374146740
- ISBN: 0374146748
- Physical Description: 326 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Originally published in Spanish in 2013 by Alfaguara Editiones, Spain, as El héroe discreto."--Title page verso. |
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| Subject: | Avarice > Fiction. Businessmen > Peru > Fiction. Extortion > Fiction. Family secrets > Peru > Fiction. Fathers and sons > Fiction. Insurance companies > Fiction. Kidnapping > Fiction. Older men > Fiction. Peru > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Tragicomedy. Literary fiction. Peruvian fiction. |
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