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Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-
Subjects
Businessmen -- Fiction.
Political corruption -- Fiction.
Extortion -- Fiction.
Adultery -- Fiction.
Scandals -- Fiction.
Murder -- Fiction.
Peru -- Fictions.
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Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-
Businessmen -- Fiction.
Political corruption -- Fiction.
Extortion -- Fiction.
Adultery -- Fiction.
Scandals -- Fiction.
Murder -- Fiction.
Peru -- Fictions.
MARC Display
The
neighborhood
: a
novel
/ Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
by
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Call #:
FICTION VAR
Subjects
Businessmen -- Fiction.
Political corruption -- Fiction.
Extortion -- Fiction.
Adultery -- Fiction.
Scandals -- Fiction.
Murder -- Fiction.
Peru -- Fictions.
ISBN:
9780374155124 (hc.)
0374155127 (hc.)
Uniform title:
Cinco esquinas. English
Edition:
1st American ed.
Description:
244 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
"Originally published in Spanish in 2016 by Alfaguara Ediciones, Spain, as Cinco Esquinas." -- T.p. verso
Translated from the Spanish.
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."--From publisher.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Political fiction.
Spanish fiction -- Translations into English.
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