The War of the End of the World

A Novel

Omschrijving

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREDeep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no money, no taxation, no marriage, no census. Canudos is a cauldron for the revolutionary spirit in its purest form, a state with all the potential for a true, libertarian paradise--and one the Brazilian government is determined to crush at any cost. In perhaps his most ambitious and tragic novel, Mario Vargas Llosa tells his own version of the real story of Canudos, inhabiting characters on both sides of the massive, cataclysmic battle between the society and government troops. The resulting novel is a fable of Latin American revolutionary history, an unforgettable story of passion, violence, and the devastation that follows from fanaticism.
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Schrijver
Mario Vargas Llosa, Helen Lane
Titel
The War of the End of the World
Uitgever
Picador
Jaar
2008
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
576
Gewicht
454 gr
EAN
9780312427986
Afmetingen
210 x 140 x 25 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback

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