The Resource The neighbourhood : a novel, Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
The neighbourhood : a novel, Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
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- Summary
- In the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt years of Alberto Fujimori's presidency, two wealthy couples of Lima's high society become embroiled in a disturbing vortex of erotic adventures and politically driven blackmail. One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposes. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and demands that he invest in the magazine. Enrique refuses, and the next day the pictures are on the front page. Meanwhile, Enrique's wife is in the midst of a passionate and secret affair with the wife of Enrique's lawyer and best friend. When Garro shows up murdered, the two couples are thrown into a whirlwind of navigating Peru's unspoken laws and customs, while the staff of the magazine embark on their greatest expose yet. Ironic and sensual, provocative and redemptive, the novel swirls into the kind of restless realism that has become Mario Vargas Llosa's signature style. A twisting, unpredictable tale, The Neighborhood is at once a scathing indictment of Fujimori's regime and a crime thriller that evokes the vulgarity of freedom in a corrupt system
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 244 pages
- Note
- Originally published in Spanish: [Madrid], Spain : Alfaguara Ediciones, 2016
- Isbn
- 9780571333080
- Label
- The neighbourhood : a novel
- Title
- The neighbourhood
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
- Title variation
- Neighbourhood
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt years of Alberto Fujimori's presidency, two wealthy couples of Lima's high society become embroiled in a disturbing vortex of erotic adventures and politically driven blackmail. One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposes. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and demands that he invest in the magazine. Enrique refuses, and the next day the pictures are on the front page. Meanwhile, Enrique's wife is in the midst of a passionate and secret affair with the wife of Enrique's lawyer and best friend. When Garro shows up murdered, the two couples are thrown into a whirlwind of navigating Peru's unspoken laws and customs, while the staff of the magazine embark on their greatest expose yet. Ironic and sensual, provocative and redemptive, the novel swirls into the kind of restless realism that has become Mario Vargas Llosa's signature style. A twisting, unpredictable tale, The Neighborhood is at once a scathing indictment of Fujimori's regime and a crime thriller that evokes the vulgarity of freedom in a corrupt system
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1936-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Vargas Llosa, Mario
- Index
- no index present
- Language note
- Translated from the Spanish
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1936-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Grossman, Edith
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Espionage
- Betrayal
- Extortion
- Scandals
- Businesspeople
- Sensationalism in journalism
- Political corruption
- Lima (Peru)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The neighbourhood : a novel, Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
- Note
- Originally published in Spanish: [Madrid], Spain : Alfaguara Ediciones, 2016
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000062119908
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 244 pages
- Isbn
- 9780571333080
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1002111842
- Label
- The neighbourhood : a novel, Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
- Note
- Originally published in Spanish: [Madrid], Spain : Alfaguara Ediciones, 2016
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000062119908
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 244 pages
- Isbn
- 9780571333080
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1002111842
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