Death in the Andes

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by Mario Vargas Llosa


  He stumbled to the door of the barracks and walked out. He felt a blast of icy air, and despite his confusion, he could see the splendid half-moon and the stars shining in a cloudless sky, still shedding their clear light on the craggy peaks of the Andes.

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  The Time of the Hero

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  Captain Pantoja and the Special Service

  Conversation in the Cathedral

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  The War of the End of the World

  The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta

  The Perpetual Orgy

  Who Killed Palomino Molero?

  The Storyteller

  In Praise of the Stepmother

  A Fish in the Water

  Making Waves

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  The Feast of the Goat

  Letters to a Young Novelist

  The Language of Passion

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  DEATH IN THE ANDES. Copyright © 1993 by Mario Vargas Llosa. English translation copyright © 1996 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address Picador, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Vargas Llosa, Mario.

  [Lituma en los Andes. English]

  Death in the Andes / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated by Edith Grossman.

  p. cm.

  ISBN: 978-0-312-42725-2

  1. Peru—Fiction. I. Grossman, Edith. II. Title.

  PQ8498.32.A65 L5813 1996

  863—dc20

  95040883

  Originally published in Spanish as Lituma en los Andes

  First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

 

 

 


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