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📖 Synopsis
The brutality of a Lima military school as a portrait of an entire society. The novel that launched the Latin American boom.
✍️ ChatZona's review
The novel that opened the boom. Vargas Llosa was 26 and already writing with a structure dizzying in its sheer ambition.
🏆 Awards & recognition
🏆Premio Biblioteca Breve 1962
🏆Premio Nobel de Literatura 2010 (autor)
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