The Time of the Hero

The Time of the Hero (Original title: La ciudad y los perros, literally "The City and the Dogs") 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.

It won the 1962 Premio Biblioteca Breve for best unpublished novel and the 1963 Premio de la Crítica Española. The novel has been widely acclaimed by literary experts. In 2006 it was included in the book 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. In 2008 it appeared on El Pais list "Favorite Books of 100 Spanish Authors". In 2013 it was included on The Daily Telegraph's list "500 Must Read Books".

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