num_pages: 276
description: In a remote Andean village, three men have disappeared. Peruvian Army corporal Lituma and his deputy Tomás have been dispatched to investigate, and to guard the town from the Shining Path guerrillas they assume are responsible. But the townspeople do not trust the officers, and they have their own ideas about what forces claimed the bodies of the missing men. To pass the time, and to cope with their homesickness, Tomás entertains Lituma nightly with the sensuous, surreal tale of his precarious love affair with a wayward prostitute. His stories are intermingled with the ongoing mystery of the missing men.Death in the Andes is an atmospheric suspense story and a political allegory, a panoramic view of contemporary Peru from one of the world's great novelists.
language: English
title: Death in the Andes
titlecomplete: Death in the Andes
characters: Corporal Lituma, Tomás Carreño
genres: Literature, Crime, Literary Fiction, Novels, Latin American, Nobel Prize, Spanish Literature, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 7886
places: Peru
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Premio Planeta, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Premio San Clemente Rosalía-Abanca
category: Lingua castelá
publisher: Picador