He stumbled to the door of the barracks and walked out. He felt a blast of icy air, and despite his confusion, he could see the splendid half-moon and the stars shining in a cloudless sky, still shedding their clear light on the craggy peaks of the Andes.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Vargas Llosa, Mario.
[Lituma en los Andes. English]
Death in the Andes / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated by Edith Grossman.
p. cm.
ISBN: 978-0-312-42725-2
1. Peru—Fiction. I. Grossman, Edith. II. Title.
PQ8498.32.A65 L5813 1996
863—dc20
95040883
Originally published in Spanish as Lituma en los Andes
First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux