The latest masterpiece — perceptive, funny, insightful, affecting — from the Nobel Prize — winning author.
Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa’s newest novel, The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters...
"…raw, powerful and eloquent…" – Michael Connelly
Bruno Johnson, a tough street cop, member of the elite violent crime task force, feared by the bad guys, admired by the good, finds his life derailed when a personal tragedy forces him to break...
Unwilling to accept that his anarchist world must be separated from the rest of the civilized universe, Shevek, a brilliant physicist, risks his life by traveling to the utopian mother planet of Urras.
Won Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1974.
Won...