The time of the hero

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  • New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1966
By LLOSA, Mario Vargas
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1966. SIGNED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, dustjacket in flawless condition; overall a gorgeous copy. Signed first American edition, first printing translated by Lysander Kemp. Set among the students of Lencio Prado Military Academy in Peru (which Llosa actually attended), a group of cadets start a rebellion. It is said that the school itself burned several copies and condemned the book as propaganda against Peru. In 1962 it won Premio Biblioteca Breve for best fiction novel and was later turned into a film.

Llosa (b. 1936) is a Peruvian writer, politician and college professor. In 2010, Llosa won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and is considered to have had “a larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom,” (wikipedia).

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Title

The time of the hero

Author

LLOSA, Mario Vargas

Condition

Unknown

Publisher

Grove Press, Inc: New York

Date

1966

Edition

SIGNED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING


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