The Green House

The Green House - Paperback

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The Green House - Paperback

The Green House - Paperback

by Mario Vargas Llosa
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by Mario Vargas Llosa (Author)

"Dazzling. . . . An imaginative documentation of nature's sway over man." --New York Times Book Review

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, an important and passionate novel set in Peru, that explores man's struggle with both nature and civilization

Vargas Llosa's classic early novel takes place in Puira, a Peruvian town situated between desert and jungle, and which is torn by boredom and lust. Don Anselmo, a stranger in a black coat, builds a brothel on the outskirts of the town while he charms its innocent people, thus setting of a chain-reaction with extraordinary consequences.

This brothel, called the Green House, brings together the innocent and the corrupt: Bonificia, a young Indian girl saved by the nuns only to become a prostitute: Father Garcia, struggling for the church; and four best friends drawn to both excitement and escape.

The conflicting forces that haunt the Green House evoke a world balanced between savagery and civilization--and one which is cursed by not being able to discern between the two.

Number of Pages: 405
Dimensions: 1.1 x 7.8 x 5.2 IN
Publication Date: February 01, 2005
ISBN9780060732790
Author Mario Vargas Llosa
PublisherHarper Perennial
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedFebruary 2005
LanguageENG- English
Pages405
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-2025) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." He also received the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor. His many works include The Feast of the Goat, In Praise of the Stepmother, and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Adrian Nathan West is a novelist, an essayist, and a translator based in Spain. His work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, McSweeney's, and many other publications. He is the author of The Aesthetics of Degradation and the novel My Father's Diet.

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