The War of the End of the World

The War of the End of the World
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 993
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ISBN-10 : 9781429921985
ISBN-13 : 1429921986
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Book Synopsis The War of the End of the World by : Mario Vargas Llosa

Download or read book The War of the End of the World written by Mario Vargas Llosa and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel Prize–winning author’s classic novel of civil war in nineteenth-century Brazil: “A modern tragedy on the grand scale . . . As dark as spilled blood” (Salman Rushdie, The New Republic). Deep within the remote backlands of Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no money, no taxation, no marriage, no census. Canudos is a cauldron for the revolutionary spirit in its purest form, a state with all the potential for a true, libertarian paradise—and one the Brazilian government is determined to crush at any cost. In perhaps his most ambitious and tragic novel, Mario Vargas Llosa offers his fictionalized vision of the story of Canudos, inhabiting characters on both sides of the massive, cataclysmic battle between the society and government troops. The resulting novel is a fable of Latin American revolutionary history, an unforgettable story of passion, violence, and the devastation that follows from fanaticism.


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