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  <title><![CDATA[سال های سگی]]></title>
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  <default_description>Translated to over 30 languages, this is perhaps Vargas Llosa's most violent book. Set in a military school in Lima, where an unwritten code of survival of the fittest is imposed. Here, he focuses on the brutality of military life and the strong pyramidal hierarchy that mirrors Peruvian society, where violence, exploitation and human degradation are the guarantee so that each layer of the pyramid maintains its place. All the conflicts of Peruvian society arise with rage and impotence in this testimonial novel in which Vargas Llosa, paints a social and political picture.  &lt;P&gt;Description in Spanish: La ciudad y los perros no solamente es un ataque contra la crueldad ejercida a un grupo de j&#243;venes alumnos del Colegio Militar Leoncio Prado, sino tambi&#233;n una cr&#237;tica frontal al concepto err&#243;neo de la virilidad, de sus funciones y de las consecuencias de una educaci&#243;n castrense malentendida. Aunada a la brutalidad propia de la vida militar, a lo largo de las p&#225;ginas de esta extraordinaria novela, la vehemencia y la pasi&#243;n de la juventud se desbocan hasta llegar a una furia, una rabia y un fanatismo que anulan toda sensibilidad. El libro m&#225;s violento de Mario Vargas Llosa, traducido a m&#225;s de treinta idiomas.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1963</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>La Ciudad y los Perros</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mario Vargas Llosa]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Oct 01 13:47:34 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Las primeras 50 páginas cuesta agarrarle el ritmo, porque es una historia con muchos personajes, muchos cambios de narrador y de enfoque, saltos temporales y Vargas Llosa ni siquiera pierde tiempo en contextualizar la historia.<br/><br/>Al final, esto se agradece: Vargas Llosa escribe para un lec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72802799">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9870405">
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    <name><![CDATA[Raziye]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 03 03:11:56 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 03 03:14:56 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[شیوه روایتش واقعا محشره.کسانی که میجواهند زندگی رو از یک دریچه دیگه ببینند از دستش ندهند]]></body>
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    <review id="73182342">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kebrit]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Tehran, 28, Iran, Islamic Republic of]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Fri Oct 02 03:16:01 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 02 03:16:18 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[کسی نمی‌دونه که این لقب‌ها رو کی از خودش در می‌آره. وقتی منو بوآ صدا کردن اولش خندیدم اما بعدش داشتم دیوونه می‌شدم و از یکی یکی می‌پرسیدم کی اسمو رو من گذاشته، اما ف...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73182342">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61560027">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ximena]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Morelia, 16, Mexico]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Mon Jun 29 17:12:43 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jul 05 20:32:45 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Es una de las mejores novelas que he leído en mi vida.  La historia es simple, un poco angustiante, pero nada del otro mundo.  Algunos muchachos conviven en la escuela secundaria, internado, donde reciben instrucción de diferentes disciplinas, incluyendo la militar.  Para mí, la lección de la no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61560027">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61560027]]></url>
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    <review id="432643">
    <user id="4693">
    <name><![CDATA[علی]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[3050, Denmark]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Mon Mar 26 07:20:21 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Mar 28 01:34:29 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[بسیاری از آثار ماریو بارگاس یوسا به فارسی برگردانده شده است. آنها که من دیده ام: &quot;زندگی واقعی آلخاندرو مایتا&quot;/ حسن مرتضوی (ترجمه ی بدی نیست)، &quot;سال های سگی&quot;/ اح...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/432643">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="65141843">
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    <name><![CDATA[Dragus]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Bucharest, 10, Romania]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Mon Jul 27 10:58:22 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 27 10:59:58 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very nice book, Mario Vargas Llosa really out did himself on this one, but despite of it's good writing and interesting inside it's in no way revolutionary so I will give it a 4 to differentiate from the truly innovative ones.]]></body>
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    <review id="78169474">
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  <date_added>Wed Nov 18 00:49:05 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 18 00:50:14 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[معمولی شروع شد و از میانه اوج گرفت. مانند اکثر کارهای یوسا باید گاهی دوباره برگشت و اوایل کتاب را دوباره خواند.]]></body>
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    <review id="41540605">
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    <name><![CDATA[Patricio]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Buenos Aires, Argentina]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Thu Jan 01 17:47:50 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 01 17:49:48 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Una de sus mejores novelas, o por lo menos escrita con una pasion que despues no encontre en otras novelas como El Paraiso en la otra esquina, o Los cuadernos de Don Rigoberto]]></body>
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    <review id="72877123">
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this one in high school...yes, a loong time ago. I remember it being easy to read and not much more]]></body>
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    <review id="15345146">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Feb 13 12:47:12 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[In my opinion this is one of Mario Vargas Llosa's best novels (I haven't read all of them of course but compared to the other 4 I did read is by far the most interesting and well written)<br/>What I liked most about this book is the technique. The way it combines the narrative discourse and the dif...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15345146">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45393255">
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    <name><![CDATA[Lorena Francisca]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Santiago, 12, Chile]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Wed Feb 04 15:37:25 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Feb 04 15:37:45 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lo tengo nuevo y sin leer...irresponsable por decir lo menos...]]></body>
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    <review id="7039414">
    <user id="426643">
    <name><![CDATA[Behzad]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[زندگی سگی<br/><br/>گفتن از این کتاب سخت است . در این کتاب لحظه هایی واقعی را میبینید که چگونه نوشته شده اند . کسانی را میبینید که در حقیقت همان ماها و دیگرانی هستند که در پ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7039414">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="78315485">
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  <date_added>Thu Nov 19 08:30:19 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 19 08:30:40 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[makes me want to go to Lima]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Vargas Llosa takes us to a trip among the corridor's of the peruvian military school Leoncio Prado, by which we get to know the reality and cruelty of childhood among themselves. A cruent journey along the relationship of power, the machism, the force, and the view of human being in the militar real...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39376256">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 13 23:23:36 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[در نیمه رها شده<br/>خوشم نیومد<br/>هرچی پیش رفتم به امید اینکه چیزی دستمو بگیره این اتفاق نیفتاد]]></body>
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    <review id="32462779">
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    <name><![CDATA[Amir]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Aug 28 08:56:57 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[من این کتابو توی خرداد ماه خوندم<br/>هم خود داستان پُر کشش و جذابه، هم شیوه ی روایتش که خواننده رو درگیر میکنه برای تشخیص این که هر فصل رو کدوم شخصیت روایت میکنه<br/>.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32462779">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Time of the Hero&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What I always knew,people like my dogs more than me.  But I did read this book in English....lol, it is called City Dog.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is Llosa-style(!) in one word. It has got twists that not everybody like! but I am quite interested in the way Llosa narrates the events. Description of places and characters are perfect but getting the story line requires one to have patience and to be alert and analytical; Llosa does not...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2918311">more...</a>]]></body>
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