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The Discreet Hero

✍ Scribed by Llosa, Mario Vargas

Book ID
108049843
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year
2015
Tongue
en-US
Weight
327 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780374711573

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✦ Synopsis

The latest masterpiece**—perceptive, funny, insightful, affecting****—from the Nobel Prize–winning author
**
Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa's newest novel, 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...

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