The Neighborhood: A Novel
by Vargas Llosa, Mario
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0571333087
- ISBN 13
- 9780571333080
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Faber and Faber, London, 2018. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 244 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. The book has been read and it may have some creases but is sound overall. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. In the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt years of Alberto Fujimori's presidency, two wealthy couples of Lima's high society become embroiled in a disturbing vortex of erotic adventures and politically driven blackmail. One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposes. 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 expose yet. Ironic and sensual, provocative and redemptive, the novel swirls into the kind of restless realism that has become Mario Vargas Llosa's signature style. A twisting, unpredictable tale, The Neighborhood is at once a scathing indictment of Fujimori's regime and a crime thriller that evokes the vulgarity of freedom in a corrupt system. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Crime Fiction; Peru; 1990s; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9780571333080. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10525. . 9780571333080
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10525
- Title
- The Neighborhood: A Novel
- Author
- Vargas Llosa, Mario
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0571333087
- ISBN 13
- 9780571333080
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2018
- Keywords
- BZDB137 mario vargas llosa, nobel prize, peru, crime, fiction, Fiction; Crime Fiction; Peru; 1990s; Unbranded EAN: 9780571333080 Vargas Llosa, Mario The Neighborhood: A Novel
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