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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-     Subjects     Businessmen -- Peru -- Fiction.     Extortion -- Fiction.     Peru -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-       by title:      The discreet hero [e...         MARC Display

The discreet hero [electronic resource] / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. by Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. Subjects Businessmen -- Peru -- Fiction.   Extortion -- Fiction.   Peru -- Fiction. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=193BBF8B-B0CF-4CB9-A656-B46A37E96DB9 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/2390-1/{193BBF8B-B0CF-4CB9-A656-B46A37E96DB9}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780374711573 (electronic bk.) 0374711577 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource (326 pages) Edition:  First American edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  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" --   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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