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Who Killed Palomino Molero?

by Mario Vargas Llosa
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The Nobel Prize–winning author draws on his own investigation of an infamous murder in 1950s Peru to construct this acclaimed detective novel.
When a young airman is found murdered near an air force base in the northern desert, Lieutenant Silva and his assistant, Officer Lituma, must investigate. With not so much as a squad car, they must hitch a ride to the crime scene. Though their superiors are indifferent, and the victim's commanding officer is openly hostile, Silva and Lituma remain committed to solving the riddle of young Palomino Molero's death.
In his first detective novel, Mario Vargas Llosa delivers a deftly plotted story as he explores one of his signature themes: the despair one feels when attempting to be honest in a corrupt society.
"Evoking landscape and mores in writing that is spare, rich and cruelly beautiful . . . the novel manages to meditate on evil, art, love and race while going about its business of solving a crime." —The New York Times

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    August 6, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9781429922111

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    • English

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 1, 1987
      In the 1950s, a hanging, castrated, garroted corpse is discovered in a field outside a small town in Peru, revealing a murder that is never satisfactorily solved and a political intrigue that's never untangled. Written by the distinguished Peruvian novelist

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 1, 1988
      The distinguished Peruvian novelist (Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter et al.) examines the more sinister aspects of human nature in this story of political and psychological corruption. "Written with colloquial ease and gritty dialogue, this taut narrative propels the reader to its disturbing denouement, leaving provocative questions in its wake,'' wrote PW.

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