signed first edition
1984 · New York
by Llosa, Mario Vargas; Lane, Helen R.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1984. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. Inscribed first US edition of Llosa's retelling of the apocalyptic movement that would result in the War of Canudos — considered by the author to be his "most important book." In Llosa's historical epic about the founding of Canudos by charismatic preacher Antônio Conselheiro and the brutal war waged against the town by Brazillian authorities, "Canudos is the revolutionary spirit in its purest and most apocalyptic form[.]" A labor of intensive research and a departure from the usual literary backdrop of Llosa's native Peru, the Nobel Prize-winner came to consider THE WAR (truncated)