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The Green House
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $18.99
ISBN13: 9780060732790
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Feb 1 2005
Pages: 405
Weight: 0.70
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
Dazzling. . . . An imaginative documentation of nature's sway over man. --New York Times Book Review
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, an important and passionate novel set in Peru, that explores man's struggle with both nature and civilization
Vargas Llosa's classic early novel takes place in Puira, a Peruvian town situated between desert and jungle, and 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, thus setting of 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 which is cursed by not being able to discern between the two.
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