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Music & the Arts
The country that has been home to empires both indigenous and European has a wealth of
cultural and artistic tradition. Perhaps the most outstanding achievements are in the areas of
music (both indigenous and otherwise), painting and literature — the latter of which re-
ceived plenty of attention in 2010, when Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa won the No-
bel Prize.
Must-Read
Fiction
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The War of the End of the
World,
Mario Vargas Llosa
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War by Candlelight,
Daniel
Alarcón
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Chronicle of San Gabriel,
Julio Ramón Ribeyro