by Mario Vargas Llosa · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788466328067
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«El héroe discreto» is the novel by Mario Vargas Llosa published in 2014 by Punto de Lectura in hardcover, with 384 pages, in Spanish.
Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman from Piura who suffers extortion, and Ismael Carrera, a Lima businessman plotting revenge against his sons, star in two parallel stories. Both are discreet rebels who live by their convictions. Humor, melodrama and an imaginary Peru with characters from Vargas Llosa's universe.
Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010. The novel was originally published in 2013; this Punto de Lectura edition, in hardcover with dust jacket, appeared on November 5, 2014.
For fans of Mario Vargas Llosa and readers of contemporary fiction interested in Latin American narrative.
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
