WAR OF THE END OF THE WORLD,THE - Penguin USA

Deep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the dammed of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and their like. It is a place where history and civilizations are turned upside down. There is no money, property, income tax, no marriage or census, no decimal system. Canudos is the revolutionary spirit in its purest and most apocalyptic form - a state that promises to be a libertatian paradise but that the forces of the modern world and the nation-state cannot tolerate. In one of his most brilliant and most tragic novels, Mario Vargas Llosas retells a crucial event of Latin American history. It is an unforgettable take of passion, idealism, adventure, and man's struggle to be free.