Death in the Andes
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140262155 (0140262156)
Publish date: February 1st 1997
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
Spanish Literature,
Latin American,
Latin American Literature,
Nobel Prize
While the book was not unenjoyable, it's not a book that I've thought about since I finished it.
Death in the Andes is ostensibly a mystery. Three men are missing in an impoverished Andean mining town. This is originally blamed on the Senderistas, a vicious Communist guerrilla group that terrorized Peru in the 80s. However, when Civil Guards Lituma and Carreno investigate, they suggest there ma...