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Pub Date: 2005-02-01 Pages: 416 Language: English Publisher:. HarperCollins US Mario Vargas Llosas classic early novel takes place in a Peruvian town. situated between desert and jungle. 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. setting in motion 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 that is cursed by not being able to discern between the two.
Pub Date: 2005-02-01 Pages: 416 Language: English Publisher:. HarperCollins US Mario Vargas Llosas classic early novel takes place in a Peruvian town. situated between desert and jungle. 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. setting in motion 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 that is cursed by not being able to discern between the two.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa, born in Peru in 1936, is the author of some of the most significant writing to come out of South America in the past fifty years. His novels include The Green House, about a...
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