num_pages: 275
description: Set in an isolated, rundown community in the Peruvian Andes, a part mystery, part political allegory follows a series of disappearances that involve the Shining Path guerrillas and a local couple who performs Dionysian sacrifices.
language: English
title: Death in the Andes
titlecomplete: Death in the Andes
characters: Tomás Carreño, Corporal Lituma
genres: Mystery, Latin American, Nobel Prize, Novels, Spanish Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 7886
places: Peru
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Premio Planeta, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Premio San Clemente Rosalía-Abanca
category: Lingua castelá
publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux