Mario Vargas Llosa is an outstanding Peruvian prose writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Continuing the line of great Latin American writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, he creates amazing novels balancing on the brink of reality and fiction. In Vargas Llosa’s new novel “The Humble Hero”, two parallel storylines masterfully twist in a bewitchingly elegant Marinera rhythm . The main character of the first is the hard worker Felicito Yanaque, decent and trusting, who becomes a victim of strange blackmailers; the second hero is a successful businessman Ismael Carrera, who, at the end of his life, seeks revenge on his two idle sons who are waiting for his death. Both Ismael and Felicito are, of course, not heroes at all. However, where others cowardly agree, these two stage a quiet rebellion. Old acquaintances flash across the pages of the novel - characters from the world created by Vargas Llosa. A lively, humorous narrative with elements of melodrama will undoubtedly bring great pleasure to the reader. For the first time in Russian!