The neighborhood a novel
One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and demands that he invest in the magazine. Enrique refuses, and the next d...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Spanish |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2018.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: | One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. 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 exposé yet. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in Spanish in 2016 by Alfaguara Ediciones, Spain, as Cinco Esquinas." -- Title page verso |
| Physical Description: | 244 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780374155124 0374155127 |
| Author Notes: | Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010 "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." He has also won the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor. His many works include The Discreet Hero , The Feast of the Goat , The Bad Girl , and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter , all published by FSG. |
