The War of the End of the World
, by Mario Vargas Llosa- ISBN: 9780374286514 | 0374286515
- Cover: Nonspecific Binding
- Copyright: 3/4/2011
Set in nineteenth century Brazil, and based on a real episode in Brazilian history, this novel is the tory of an apocalyptic movement led by a mysterious prophet to establish another republic: Canudos, whose citizens are all the damned of the earth, the prostittues, bandits and beggars who flee to the Brazilian frontier.