Literary Fiction

Lituma en los Andes

by Mario Vargas Llosa

Nobel laureate Vargas Llosa sets a mystery in Peru's Andean highlands, where Civil Guard Corporal Lituma investigates mysterious disappearances amid political violence. The Shining Path insurgency collides with ancient beliefs and modern brutality in this exploration of a country torn between worlds.

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