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  <title><![CDATA[Death in the Andes]]></title>
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  <default_description>A controversial novel set in an isolated, run-down community in the Andes. Part detective story and part political allegory, it offers a panoramic view of Peruvian society, of the country's recent political violence, and of its cultural heritage.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1994</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mario Vargas Llosa]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every time I heard and think of South American, the people, the skin colour, the prehistoric civilisation, and even the sound of southern American I relate those to one word. Exotic. Exotica.<br/><br/>Is that all?<br/>Apparently NO. <br/><br/>I generalised South American as one, I forgot just l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46709196">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an odd duck. At first I wondered about the translation, but Grossman is an old hand, so I'm not laying the reading experience at her feet. I'm a big fan of Llosa's <em>War of the End of the World</em>, which is pretty much an epic. With this one, it seems he wanted shrink his focus -- but still have...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30018321">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Feb 14 07:02:10 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Feb 15 14:34:35 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hhmm..  I hate it when a search for the ISBN number yields a result clearly not the same as the bk I'm reading.  My copy of the bk has 247pp &amp; the one listed here has 322.  That's a pretty significant difference.  I'm not surprised that the cover's different or that the publication date's different ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46312007">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76129068">
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 31 09:49:39 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Oct 31 09:49:39 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[يمكن القول ان عنصر التشويق العالي في هذه الرواية كان الدافع الاساسي لإنهائها في وقت قياسي!<br/>تضم هذه الرواية بين جنباتها العديد من الحكايا، تبدأ بالعريف ليتوما ومس...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76129068">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61937269">
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jul 02 16:00:28 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this novel while traveling in Peru, which certainly added to its impact for me.  Death in the Andes is about the era of the Sendero Luminoso terror campaign which was at its height in the 1980's and early 1990's, and killed tens of thousands while uprooting hundreds of thousands more who migr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61937269">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44058135">
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jan 23 09:39:39 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am really getting into Vargas Llosa. I probably got into this book more than other people because I spent a month in Peru last year. He really captures Peru beautifully - the combination of modern rural slum, Andean landscape, violence, and precolonial mysticism. Plus the macho themes and characte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44058135">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29677644">
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It begins as a mystery – a civil guard trying to find three men who have gone missing in a mining village of Peru. But even from the beginning, the mystery only seems to be in the background, somewhere hovering only in the mind of this guard and ignored by everyone else. Even the guard seems only ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29677644">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74475">
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  <date_added>Thu Feb 22 13:18:53 -0800 2007</date_added>
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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/74475">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40866082">
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    <name><![CDATA[Valerie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book before my travels to Peru.  I am very glad I read one of his books so I was familiar with one of the most famous Peruvian authors.. gave me a conversational topic with the locals.  Overall, the book isn't one that EVERYone needs to read, but I enjoyed it thoroughly.  At first I wasn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40866082">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66315363">
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a rather dark and compelling mystery--I'm really glad I didn't read it before my trip to Peru last year!  I thoroughly enjoyed Llosa's enticing style.  It was a bit tricky to figure out if the narrator was in the present or re-telling the past, but I got used to it.  There were loads of viv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66315363">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17953045">
    <user id="214053">
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  <date_added>Mon Mar 17 12:45:28 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Mar 29 18:53:47 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This might be a five star book but I’m going to have to think about it for awhile. A masterful meditation on violence and its roots in politics, poverty, sex, and folklore; and a portrait of the mountain people caught between government indifference (and malice), the seemingly irrational violence ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17953045">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54231471">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have a picture in my mind of a village high in the Andes.  It is wet and muddy and miserable.  The miners who live there gather in a hovel of a bar to dull their miseries.  Death stalks the town and superstition reigns. It is as vivid as if I'd been there.  I can't find the book or remember the au...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54231471">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="33743122">
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Jan 06 08:48:19 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a good read. It provided thoughtful insight into the political life and struggles in Peru- especially highlighting the rivalry between the coastal elites and the highland working-class. The violence that has been a constant presence in Peruvian history is at its worst in the 1980s with the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33743122">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5592202">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[dont be fooled by the 3 stars, this is a well-written novel.  im just not sure how much i liked it.  what are these star ratings supposed to signify, anyway?  this was among the more disturbing books ive read recently, not least because i am just back from Andean Peru and experienced such a differen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5592202">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59857657">
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Books my Llosa are everywhere in South America. I would like to read more of his works, I started with this story about a village in Peru. It definitely had South America flavor and i recommend this author whether or not you're traveling to S.A. to experience the sounds, sights and flavors described...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59857657">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58771353">
    <user id="1875083">
    <name><![CDATA[Libyrinths]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good, but not as good as other Vargas Llosa I've read. Still, it's hard to find a bad book by him. Gives a dark picture of the people, their lives, the various cultural beliefs, political situations in Peru. Also includes a strange -- because transplanted -- Bacchus-like character and events. I appr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58771353">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book more in theory than in execution.  On the one hand, I really liked the way that this book brought out the influence of indigenous culture in South America as I believe that this is something that often gets filtered out of the sanitized version of Latin America that we get in the s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67135725">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this while traveling in Peru.  The Sendero era that Vargas Llosa conjures is quite different from the Sacred Valley tourist circuit, but this haunting portrait of a dark period in Peru´s history is best understood if one knows a little Spanish and has a grasp of recent Peruvian history.  Not...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65929982">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[MVL is a great writer and this is a cool book about the &quot;Sendero Luminoso&quot; (Shining Path) years in Peru.  Just don't read it on the Chicken Bus from Lima to Cuzco as I did.  Read it and you'll know why.  I also don't recommend the Chicken Bus from Lima to Cuzco no matter what you read....b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47694967">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A country suffering from various internal conflicts almost always seems to develop such issues from social, political and economic constraints. What identifies the troubles of individual nations, at least in the world of Llosa's Peru, are cultural factors. What struck me about this novel wasn't just...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13544880">more...</a>]]></body>
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