by Mario Vargas Llosa · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781941999707
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The Neighborhood is a novel by the renowned author Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Set in the turbulent 90s during the presidency of Alberto Fujimori in Peru, the story intertwines the lives of two wealthy couples from Lima who become involved in a scandal of political blackmail and erotic adventures. When the editor of a sensationalist magazine is murdered, the characters are immersed in a plot of corruption and secrets that forces them to navigate the unwritten laws of Peruvian society.
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
