The Discreet Hero (47 page)
Authors: Mario Vargas Llosa
One of our most celebrated translators of literature in Spanish,
Edith Grossman
has translated the works of the Nobel laureates
Mario Vargas Llosa
and Gabriel García Márquez, among others. Her version of Miguel de Cervantes’s
Don Quixote
is considered the finest translation of the Spanish masterpiece in the English language.
ALSO BY
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Conversation in the Cathedral
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The War at the End of the World
The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto
In Praise of Reading and Fiction
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Contents
A Note About the Author and Translator
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Copyright © 2013 by Mario Vargas Llosa
Translation copyright © 2015 by Edith Grossman
All rights reserved
Originally published in Spanish in 2013 by Alfaguara Ediciones, Spain, as
El héroe discreto
English translation published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First American edition, 2015
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936–
[Héroe discreto. English]
The discreet hero / Mario Vargas Llosa; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. — First American edition.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-374-14674-0 (cloth) — ISBN 978-0-374-71157-3 (e-book)
I. Grossman, Edith, 1936– translator. II. Title.
PQ8498.32.A65 H4713 2015
863'.64—dc23
2014031209