Death in the Andes
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780374140014 (0374140014)
Publish date: February 1st 1996
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
Pages no: 275
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...