The Discreet Hero

Paperback

Main Details

Title The Discreet Hero
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Mario Vargas Llosa
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:432
Dimensions(mm): Height 178,Width 112
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780571310722
Audience
General
Edition Open Market - Airside ed

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 1 October 2015
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Felicito Yanaque has raised himself from poverty to ownership of a trucking business. His two sons work for him. He receives a threatening letter demanding protection money. The police don't take him seriously, Felicito refuses to pay up and gets sucked into a nightmare. He becomes a reluctant public hero. Then his mistress is kidnapped, and matters become seriously complicated. And he finds that his troubles have begun very close to home. His fate is interwoven with the story of Rigoberto, a wealthy Lima insurance executive. His boss and old friend, Ismael, suddenly announces that he is marrying his housekeeper, a chola from Piura, to the consternation of his twin sons, a pair of brutal wasters. Ismael escapes to Europe with his new bride, leaving Rigoberto to face the twins' threats, and their claims that he connived with a scheming woman to rob an old man of his fortune. Rigoberto is hounded by the press and TV. Meanwhile, his only son is having visions of a mysterious stranger who may or may not be the devil...

Author Biography

Mario Vargas-Llosa was born in Peru is 1936. He is the author of some of the last half-century's most important novels, including The War of the End of the World, The Feast of the Goat, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and Conversation in the Cathedral. In 2010 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.