First edition (Spanish)
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Author | Mario Vargas Llosa |
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Original title | ¿Quién mató a Palomino Molero? |
Country | Peru |
Language | Spanish |
Genre | Crime novel |
Publisher | Seix Barral |
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1986 |
Who Killed Palomino Molero? (Spanish: ¿Quién mató a Palomino Molero? ) is a 1986 novel by Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa.
The book begins with the discovery of the brutally murdered body of a young recruit, Palomino Molero, from a nearby military base in northern Peru. Vargas Llosa uses the structure of a murder mystery to examine the darker side of human nature, corruption, and class prejudice in Peru of the 1950s.
Novel Death in the Andes follows the character of policeman Lituma.