{"product_id":"9780374525569","title":"Who Killed Palomino Molero? : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eWho Killed Palomino Molero?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Mario Vargas Llosa\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis wonderful detective novel is set in Peru in the 1950s. Near an Air Force base in the northern desert, a young airman is found murdered. Lieutenant Silva and Officer Lituma investigate. Lacking a squad car, they have to cajole a local cabbie into taking them to the scene of the crime. Their superiors are indifferent; the commanding officer of the air base stands in their way; but Silva and Lituma are determined to uncover the truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWho Killed Palomino Molero\u003c\/i\u003e, an entertaining and brilliantly plotted mystery, takes up one of Vargas Llosa's characteristic themes: the despair at how hard it is to be an honest man in a corrupt society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Vargas Llosa's fiction is distinguished by his wit, his taste for irony and his disposition to engage the complexities of existence with an insight that distains glib moralizing or ideological rigor.” —\u003ci\u003eRobert Stone, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner Nobel Prize in Literature (2010), Nobel Prize For Literature (2010)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780374525569\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40675778265294,"sku":"9780374525569","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_f2f0a3d7-b77a-4312-83fa-2c25ed9d1fda.jpg?v=1639972080","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780374525569","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}