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Hardcover. First U.K. edition (Translated by Lysander Kemp)A very good book, in a very good dust jacket. Edge scuff to jacket, price-clipped.Signed by the author on title page."When The Time of the Hero was first published in Peru in 1962, it was considered so scandalous that a thousand copies were burned in an official ceremony at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy. That same year, the book received the Biblioteca Breve Prize, an award given to the best work of fiction in the Spanish language. It was later filmed by Peruvian director Francisco Lombardi. "