The neighborhood
Subtitle: a novel
By: Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
Contributors: Grossman, Edith, 1936- translator
Edition: First American edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780374155124
Subjects: Political corruption; Fiction; Sensationalism in journalism; History
Work titles: Cinco esquinas
Description: 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.