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008 140828s2015 nyu 000 1 eng
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050 00 $aPQ8498.32.A65$bH4713 2015
082 00 $a863/.64$223
100 1 $aVargas Llosa, Mario,$d1936-$eauthor.
240 10 $aHéroe discreto.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe discreet hero /$cMario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
250 $aFirst American edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2015.
300 $a326 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $aA successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru.
520 $a"The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to intersect: neat, endearing Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in Piura, Peru, who finds himself the victim of blackmail; and Ismael Carrera, a successful owner of an insurance company in Lima, who cooks up a plan to avenge himself against the two lazy sons who want him dead. Felícito and Ismael are, each in his own way, quiet, discreet rebels: honorable men trying to seize control of their destinies in a social and political climate where all can seem set in stone, predetermined. They are hardly vigilantes, but each is determined to live according to his own personal ideals and desires--which means forcibly rising above the pettiness of their surroundings. The Discreet Hero is also a chance to revisit some of our favorite players from previous Vargas Llosa novels: Sergeant Lituma, Don Rigoberto, Doña Lucrecia, and Fonchito are all here in a prosperous Peru. Vargas Llosa sketches Piura and Lima vividly--and the cities become not merely physical spaces but realms of the imagination populated by his vivid characters" --$cprovided by publisher.
650 0 $aBusinessmen$zPeru$vFiction.
650 0 $aExtortion$vFiction.
651 0 $aPeru$vFiction.
700 1 $aGrossman, Edith,$d1936-$etranslator.
852 00 $bglx$hPQ8498.32.A65$iH4713 2015