Set in an isolated, rundown community in the Peruvian Andes, a part mystery, part political allegory follows a series of disappearances that involve the Shining Path guerrillas and a local couple who performs Dionysian sacrifices.
"Peru's best novelist--one of the world's best."--John Updike, "The New Yorker"
"Well-knit social criticism as trenchant as any by Balzac or Flaubert . . . This is a novel that plumbs the heart of the Americas."--"The Washington Post Book World"
"Remarkable . . . a fantastically picturesque landscape of Indians and llamas, snowy peaks, hunger, and violence."--Raymond Sokolov, "The Wall Street Journal"
"Meticulously realistic descriptions of this high, unforgiving landscape and the haunted people who perch there . . . merge into a surreal portrait of a place both specific and universal."--"Time"
Peru's best novelist--one of the world's best. "John Updike, The New Yorker"
Well-knit social criticism as trenchant as any by Balzac or Flaubert . . . This is a novel that plumbs the heart of the Americas. "The Washington Post Book World"
Remarkable . . . a fantastically picturesque landscape of Indians and llamas, snowy peaks, hunger, and violence. "Raymond Sokolov, The Wall Street Journal"
Meticulously realistic descriptions of this high, unforgiving landscape and the haunted people who perch there . . . merge into a surreal portrait of a place both specific and universal. "Time""
Peru's best novelist--one of the world's best. John Updike, The New Yorker
Well-knit social criticism as trenchant as any by Balzac or Flaubert . . . This is a novel that plumbs the heart of the Americas. The Washington Post Book World
Remarkable . . . a fantastically picturesque landscape of Indians and llamas, snowy peaks, hunger, and violence. Raymond Sokolov, The Wall Street Journal
Meticulously realistic descriptions of this high, unforgiving landscape and the haunted people who perch there . . . merge into a surreal portrait of a place both specific and universal. Time
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"Peru's best novelist--one of the world's best." --John Updike, The New Yorker
"Well-knit social criticism as trenchant as any by Balzac or Flaubert . . . This is a novel that plumbs the heart of the Americas." --The Washington Post Book World
"Remarkable . . . a fantastically picturesque landscape of Indians and llamas, snowy peaks, hunger, and violence." --Raymond Sokolov, The Wall Street Journal
"Meticulously realistic descriptions of this high, unforgiving landscape and the haunted people who perch there . . . merge into a surreal portrait of a place both specific and universal." --Time
