{"product_id":"the-discreet-hero","title":"The discreet hero","description":"A successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru.\n\n\"The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to intersect: neat, endearing Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in Piura, Peru, who finds himself the victim of blackmail; and Ismael Carrera, a successful owner of an insurance company in Lima, who cooks up a plan to avenge himself against the two lazy sons who want him dead. Felícito and Ismael are, each in his own way, quiet, discreet rebels: honorable men trying to seize control of their destinies in a social and political climate where all can seem set in stone, predetermined. They are hardly vigilantes, but each is determined to live according to his own personal ideals and desires--which means forcibly rising above the pettiness of their surroundings. The Discreet Hero is also a chance to revisit some of our favorite players from previous Vargas Llosa novels: Sergeant Lituma, Don Rigoberto, Doña Lucrecia, and Fonchito are all here in a prosperous Peru. Vargas Llosa sketches Piura and Lima vividly--and the cities become not merely physical spaces but realms of the imagination populated by his vivid characters\" --","brand":"Mario Vargas Llosa","offers":[{"title":"Farrar, Straus \u0026 Giroux \/ 2015 \/ 346A","offer_id":55300115464533,"sku":"9780374146740","price":2.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0501\/4188\/8668\/files\/10291241-L.jpg?v=1791719707","url":"https:\/\/www.bookworld.ie\/products\/the-discreet-hero","provider":"Book World Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}