num_pages: 379
description: Set among a community of cadets in a Lima military school, it is notable for its experimental and complex employment of multiple perspectives. The novel was so accurate in its portraiture of the academy that the academy's authorities burned one thousand copies and condemned the book as a plan by Ecuador to denigrate Peru.
language: English
title: The Time of the Hero
titlecomplete: The Time of the Hero
characters: "El Boa”, Paulino "El Injerto", "El Rulos”, Brigadier Arróspide, "Pies Dorados", Porfirio Cava "El Serrano", Alberto Fernández “El Poeta”, Ricardo Arana “El Esclavo”, "El Negro" Vallano, Teniente Gamboa, "El Jaguar"
genres: Classics, Latin American Literature, Latin American, Nobel Prize, Novels, Spanish Literature, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Fiction
ratings_count: 22658
places: Lima
awards: awardedAt: -252432000000
name: Premio Biblioteca Breve, awardedAt: -189360000000
name: Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Castellana
publisher: Faber & Faber