The War of the End of the World
- Hardcover
- New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1984
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Translated by Helen R. Lane. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($18.95), faded at the spine. Black cloth with yellow paper-covered boards. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the edges. Vargas Llosa's take on the backland uprisings in Brazil. Considered by many to be his masterpiece and boldly stated on the jacket, "To compare The War of the End of the World with the great historical novels of a Tolstoy or a Stedhal is no hyperbole.