La ciudad y los perros

The Time of the Hero

Author

Mario Vargas Llosa

Language

Spanish

Year

1963

Country

Peru

Genre

Novel

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The Time of the Hero is a 1963 novel by Peruvian writer and 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.