by Mario Vargas Llosa · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420454054
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One of Mario Vargas Llosa's most important novels, 'The City and the Dogs' is a critique of cruelty and the misguided concept of virility in the context of a misunderstood military education. Set in the Leoncio Prado Military College, the novel follows a group of young men who learn to survive in an environment of racial prejudice and class differences, where transgression seems to be the only way out. The story explores the vehemence and passion of youth, leading them to a fanaticism that nullifies all sensitivity.
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
