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A successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru.
"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" --
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Peruvian fiction, Fiction, Novela, Novela peruano, Extorsión, Venganza, Extortion, Ficción, Revenge, Businessmen, Fiction (fictional works by one author), Peru, fiction, Fiction, suspense, Hommes d'affaires, Romans, nouvelles, Extorsion, Parents et enfants, Roman péruvien, Traductions françaises, Fiction, thrillers, suspenseTimes
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The discreet hero
2015, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
in English
- First American edition.
0374146748 9780374146740
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"La novela cuenta la historia paralela de dos personajes: el ordenado y entran able Feli cito Yanaque , un pequen o empresario de Piura que es extorsionado, e Ismael Carrera, un exitoso hombre de negocios, duen o de una aseguradora en Lima, quien urde una sorpresiva venganza contra sus dos hijos holgazanes que quisieron verlo muerto. Viejos conocidos del mundo vargallosiano aparecen en estas pa ginas: el sargento Lituma y los inconquistables, don Rigoberto, don a Lucrecia y Fonchito, todos movie ndose ahora en un Peru muy pro spero. Ambos personajes son, a su modo, discretos rebeldes que intentan hacerse cargo de sus propios destinos, pues tanto Ismael como Feli cito le echan un pulso al curso de los acontecimientos. Mientras Ismael desafi a todas las convenciones de su clase, Feli cito se aferra a unas pocas ma ximas para plantar cara al chantaje. No son justicieros, pero esta n por encima de las mezquindades de su entorno para vivir segu n sus ideales y deseos. Un libro lleno de humor, en clave de melodrama, que ocurre en el pujante Peru actual, donde Piura y Lima ya no son espacios fi sicos, sino reinos de la imaginacio n poblados por los personajes del gran escritor que es Mario Vargas Llosa.
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