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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: discreet hero
  title info:
    title: Héroe discreto. English
  name:
    name part: Vargas Llosa, Mario
    name part: 1936-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Grossman, Edith
    name part: 1936-
    role:
      role term: translator.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    edition: First American edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: spa
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 326 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: A successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru.
  abstract: "The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to intersect: neat, endearing Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in Piura, Peru, who finds himself the victim of blackmail; and Ismael Carrera, a successful owner of an insurance company in Lima, who cooks up a plan to avenge himself against the two lazy sons who want him dead. Felícito and Ismael are, each in his own way, quiet, discreet rebels: honorable men trying to seize control of their destinies in a social and political climate where all can seem set in stone, predetermined. They are hardly vigilantes, but each is determined to live according to his own personal ideals and desires--which means forcibly rising above the pettiness of their surroundings. The Discreet Hero is also a chance to revisit some of our favorite players from previous Vargas Llosa novels: Sergeant Lituma, Don Rigoberto, Doña Lucrecia, and Fonchito are all here in a prosperous Peru. Vargas Llosa sketches Piura and Lima vividly--and the cities become not merely physical spaces but realms of the imagination populated by his vivid characters" --
  note: Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
  subject:
    geographic code: s-pe---
  subject:
    topic: Businessmen
    geographic: Peru
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Extortion
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Peru
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PQ8498.32.A65 H4713 2015
  classification: 863/.64
  identifier: 9780374146740
  identifier: 0374146748
  identifier: 9780374711573 (e-book)
  identifier: 2014031209
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140828
    record change date: 20151106041200.0
    record identifier: in00003521291
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng