The neighborhood

Auteur: Mario Vargas Llosa
Uitgeverij: Faber & Faber, London
ISBN: 9780571333097
Bindwijze: Softcover
Afmetingen: 10,8 x 17,4 x 1,8 cm
Gewicht: 281 gram
Aantal Pagina’s: 262 blz
Jaar: 2020
Druk: 1e druk
Taal: Engels
Categorie: English Books

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Beschrijving

From the Nobel Laureate comes a politically charged detective novel weaving through the underbelly of Peruvian privilege. 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.

Extra informatie

Gewicht 0,281 kg
Afmetingen 10,8 × 17,4 × 1,8 cm
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