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The Neighborhood

Paperback

Main Details

Title The Neighborhood
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Mario Vargas Llosa
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:304
Dimensions(mm): Height 178,Width 111
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780571333097
Audience
General
Edition Open Market - Airside ed

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
NZ Release Date 1 November 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.