by Mario Vargas Llosa · Punto de Lectura · tapa dura · ISBN 9788466309158
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«La ciudad y los perros» is the novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Punto de Lectura in hardback (272 pages, in Spanish).
The work follows a group of cadets at the Leoncio Prado Military College in Lima, whose lives reflect the violence, prejudices and class differences of Peruvian society. Through several narrators, the novel interweaves the stories of the Poet, the Jaguar and the Slave, showing how the military environment deforms the identity and virility of the young men.
Novel winner of the Biblioteca Breve Prize 1962 and the Critics' Prize for Castilian Narrative 1964. This Punto de Lectura edition belongs to the Formato Grande collection.
For readers of Latin American literature and novels that combine social criticism with a complex narrative structure.
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".
