By Mario Vargas Lliosa, Edith
Grossman (Translator)
This morbid story is taking place in Peru during violent attacks by communist guerrillas. Two policemen, Lituma and Tomas, are assigned to a remote village in the Andes. The focus of the book are the pair who are trying to investigate various disappearances and maintain their own sanity in this mysterious place where the people mistrust strangers and fear for their lives.
During my reading of this story, I felt that Llosa was submerging me deep into the Andes with their violence, superstitions, human sacrifices, hopeless people, drugs, poverty and into the clashes between the ingenious habitants and those trying to modernize the area. The two main characters' constant inner struggles between hope and despair, love and gloom, endears them. I was mystified by the beautiful poetic narrations of Llosa. He well deserved the Nobel prize.
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