The 1963 debut novel of the Peruvian writer and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, published in Spanish as La ciudad y los perros (literally The City and the Dogs). Set among cadets at a Lima military academy modeled on one Vargas Llosa himself attended, it exposes the institution's brutality and corruption through interwoven, shifting points of view, and its publication provoked outrage among Peru's military establishment, which publicly burned copies of the book. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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What recognition has The Time of the Hero received?
It won the Premio Biblioteca Breve and the Premio de la Crítica Española and has appeared on several lists of essential books.
The novel won the 1962 Premio Biblioteca Breve for best unpublished novel and the 1963 Premio de la Crítica Española, and literary experts have widely acclaimed it. It was included in the book 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die in 2006, appeared on El País list of favorite books of 100 Spanish authors in 2008, and was included on The Daily Telegraph list of 500 must read books in 2013.
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The Time of the Hero (Original title: La ciudad y los perros) is a 1963 novel by Peruvian writer and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.
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is a 1963 novel by Peruvian writer and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.
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The Time of the Hero (Original title: La ciudad y los perros, literally "The City and the Dogs") is a 1963 novel by Peruvian writer and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. It was Vargas Llosa's first novel and is set among the cadets at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima, which he attended as a teenager.
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The Time of the Hero (Original title: La ciudad y los perros) is a 1963 novel by Peruvian writer and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.
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The Time of the Hero (Original title: La ciudad y los perros) is a 1963 novel by Peruvian writer and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.
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