{"product_id":"ciudad-y-los-perros-la","title":"The City and the Dogs","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the fundamental novels of contemporary literature in Spanish.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e«-Four -said the Jaguar.»\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 1962, \u003ci\u003eLa ciudad y los perros\u003c\/i\u003e received the Biblioteca Breve Prize and a few months later it was published after circumventing Franco's censorship. Thus began the literary journey of this work with which Mario Vargas Llosa achieved international recognition and which today is considered one of the best novels in Spanish of the 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTranslated into thirty languages, it is set in the Leoncio Prado Military School. The protagonists, a group of young people who are \"educated\" in an implacable and violent military discipline, learn to survive in an environment where racial prejudices and differences between social and economic classes are deeply rooted; where everyone shows themselves as they are not in reality and the transgression of established norms seems to be the only way out.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLa ciudad y los perros\u003c\/i\u003e is not only a diatribe against brutality, but also a frontal attack on the erroneous concept of virility and a misunderstood military education. Throughout the pages of this extraordinary novel, the vehemence and passion of youth run wild, reaching a fury, a rage and a fanaticism that nullify all sensitivity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e«The reading of such a discontinuous story as this allows its reader to strive to gather and relate the different characters and scenarios drawn in the book, a complicated journey that brings us closer to the charged atmosphere of the military school of the time. And it does so from the point of view of a spectator as curious as the young Vargas Llosa, confronted (at that time) with the unpleasant societies vomited by certain cacique regimes, especially violent throughout the continent for decades and decades of endless pain.»\u003cbr\u003eSantiago J. Navarro,\u003ci\u003e Diario de Noticias\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mario Vargas Llosa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43536103375096,"sku":"9788490625934","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/4897\/5608\/products\/ciudad-y-los-perros-la-vargas-llosa-mario-336370.jpg?v=1696462983","url":"https:\/\/ellector.com.pa\/es\/products\/ciudad-y-los-perros-la","provider":"Librerías El Lector Panamá","version":"1.0","type":"link"}