The action of "The Time of the Hero," Nobel Prize-winning author
Mario Vargas Llosa's first novel, takes place at the Leoncio Prado
Military Academy in Lima, Peru. There, four angry cadets who have
formed an inner circle in an attempt to ward off the boredom and
stifling confinement of the military academy set off a chain of
events that starts with a theft and leads to murder and suicide.
"The Time of the Hero" presents, with great accuracy and power, the
cadets' nightmare life: brutal initiation rights, poker in the
latrines, drinking contests; and, above all else, the strange
military code which, whether broken or followed, can only
destroy.
When "The Time of the Hero" was first published in Peru in 1962, it
was considered so scandalous that a thousand copies were burned in
an official ceremony at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy. That
same year, the book received the Biblioteca Breve Prize, an award
given to the best work of fiction in the Spanish language.
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