In an isolated community in the Peruvian Andes, a series of mysterious disappearances has occurred. Army corporal Lituma and his deputy Tomas believe the Shining Path guerrillas are responsible, but the townspeople have their own ideas about the forces that claimed the bodies of the missing men. This riveting novel is filled with unforgettable characters, among them disenfranchised Indians, eccentric local folk, and a couple performing strange cannibalistic sacrifices. As the investigation...
In this delightful farce, the prim and proper Captain Pantoja is sent to Peru’s Amazon frontier on a secret Army mission – he must find females for the amorous recruits. Yet complications arise as word of his achievements starts to spread, and he finds himself battling against his wife, religious zealots and the Army that gave him the mission in the first place. Through a wonderfully comic montage of letters, military documents, radio broadcasts, dream sequences and dialogue, Mario Vargas...
La obra definitiva de Mario Vargas Llosa sobre el erotismo. Rigoberto, un maduro empleado de una compania de seguros, combate su banal existencia con una rica imaginacion que va plasmando en cuadernos. Todo lo que Rigoberto no se atreve a hacer, no se atreve a vivir por si mismo, sus audacias y aventuras imaginadas, sus deseos ocultos, van quedando reflejados en estas anotaciones que lo distancian cada vez mas de su vulgar existencia. Los cuadernos son como un baul del que se van...