The neighborhood, a novel, Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
Type
Label
The neighborhood, a novel, Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
novels
Main title
The neighborhood
Oclc number
988053518
Responsibility statement
Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
Sub title
a novel
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
Table Of Contents
Marisa's dream -- An unexpected visit -- Weekend in Miami -- The entrepreneur and the lawyer -- The den of gossip -- A wreck of show business -- Quique's agony -- Shorty -- A singular affair -- The three jokers -- The scandal -- The people's dining room -- An absence -- Conjugal disagreements and agreements -- Shorty is afraid -- The landowner and the Chinese woman -- Strange operations regarding Juan Peineta -- Engineer Cárdenas's longest night -- Shorty and power -- A whirlpool -- Special edition of exposed -- Happy ending?