Death in the Andes

by Mario Vargas Llosa

‘It seems her husband disappeared,’

A good story wastes no time to start. #Sujatha

Did the mountain people really believe that lightning was the lizard of the sky?

Nobody knew who was who anymore, where one person began and the other ended, who was man, who was animal, who was human, who was woman.

‘Well, I give up, we won’t take our revenge, and Mercedes can go on planting the world with dead boyfriends and bruised lovers,’