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The Time of the Hero has been acclaimed by critics around the world as one of the outstanding Spanish novels of recent decades. In the author''s native Peru, this powerful social satire so outraged the authorities that a thousand copies were publicly burned.

The novel is set in Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima, where a group of cadets attempt to break out of the vicious round of sadistic ragging, military discipline, confinement and boredom. But their pranks set off a cycle of betrayal, murder and revenge which jeopardizes the entire military hierarchy.

''A work of undeniable power and skill.'' Sunday Telegraph

The Time of the Hero

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    A Paperback / softback by Mario Vargas Llosa, Lysander Kemp

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      Publisher: Faber & Faber
      Publication Date: 23/01/1995
      ISBN13: 9780571173204, 978-0571173204
      ISBN10: 0571173209
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction Books by Mario Vargas Llosa

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The Time of the Hero has been acclaimed by critics around the world as one of the outstanding Spanish novels of recent decades. In the author''s native Peru, this powerful social satire so outraged the authorities that a thousand copies were publicly burned.

      The novel is set in Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima, where a group of cadets attempt to break out of the vicious round of sadistic ragging, military discipline, confinement and boredom. But their pranks set off a cycle of betrayal, murder and revenge which jeopardizes the entire military hierarchy.

      ''A work of undeniable power and skill.'' Sunday Telegraph

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