Paperback, 446 pages
Spanish language
Published April 27, 2000 by Dom Quixote.
The Time of the Hero (original title: La ciudad y los perros, literally "The City and the Dogs", 1963) is a 1963 novel by Peruvian writer a Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. It was Vargas Llosa's first novel and is set among the cadets at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima, which he attended as a teenager. The novel portrays the school so scathingly that its leadership burned many copies and condemned the book as Ecuadorian propaganda against Peru.It won the 1962 Premio Biblioteca Breve for best unpublished novel and the 1963 Premio de la Critica Espanola.
The description provided here is fairly accurate. I was not terribly impressed when I read it. It was very slow reading, and overall, the pace seemed very slow. Vargas Llosa is one of the great Latin American writers, and I have read some of this other works. But this was not one I liked.
