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Original Title: La casa verde
Edition Language: English
Characters: Corporal Lituma
Setting: Peru (Perú)(Peru)
Literary Awards: Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos (1967), Premio de la Crítica de narrativa castellana (1967)
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The Green House Paperback | Pages: 416 pages
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Mario Vargas Llosa's classic early novel takes place in a Peruvian town, situated between desert and jungle, 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, setting in motion 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 that is cursed by not being able to discern between the two.

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Title:The Green House
Author:Mario Vargas Llosa
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 416 pages
Published:February 1st 2005 by Harper Perennial (first published 1965)
Categories:Fiction. Cultural. Latin American. European Literature. Spanish Literature

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amazing book. very difficult to read, but also very enjoyable. there are many sections go for pages without paragraphs. the time frame jumps around and many of the characters go by different names. it takes a while to get used to the characters and the locales. there were definitely times where i was completely confused.its a great story about a handful of people in peru and their lives, the love, hate, betrayal. half of it takes place in the jungle along the rivers, and the rest takes place in

How in love am I with my High Modernism in Latin America: Mario Vargas Llosa class? Well, I did manage to put up with this for 2 entire weeks, perhaps this is the most difficult of all his books (having read like half of the MVL library, almost). How difficult? Think: an extended version of Faulkners infuriating Sound and the Fury but modified for the tastes of an even more sophisticated reader, a worldlier one (Faulkners novel, on the other hand, seems more personal and small, siding more with

One of the first books published by Vargas Llosa.Specific events and tensions in Piura, Santa María de Nieva, and the Upper Marañón rainforest reveal broader Peruvian societal clashes. A brothel (the Green House) on the outskirts of Piura affects the city and a mission deep inside the jungle. It also brings to light the conflict between indigenous culture and modern Christianity, gender inequalities, and the landscapes that encourage exploitation across all aspects of Peruvian society.

I don't really know why I didn't love this book. The writing style is phenomenal. I didn't find it all that difficult to read. I started "Hopscotch" a while ago and that was much harder. Llosa can expertly bend the past and present into one while still bringing forth the forward movement of the plots. And speaking of plots, some were better than others. Bonificia's, I thought, was much better than Fushia and Aquilino's (Sr.), but not as good and Don Anselmo's, and especially that part about

Life is too short--and I am too close to the end of it--for me to compel myself to continue reading books that I am not really enjoying or at least finding interesting. I found it too hard to follow the plot of The Green House, and I didn't really care about any of the characters, so I quit halfway through the book. The Green House was one of Vargas Llosa's earliest books (1965). I have liked 10 of the 12 of his books that I have read, and I'm looking forward to reading his newest book, the

The hardest to read of his novels, the craziest but most beautiful structure (similar to Cortazar's Hopscotch) something like Gaudi's sacred family.It was a kind of experiment where he was defining his own trade mark which would eventually find in "Conversation in the Cathedral", his best novel and my all time favorite.

The Edge of ExistenceAlmost everyone in The Green House lives at the extreme edge of existence. But it is not death or annihilation that threatens; rather, it is an entirely different kind of existence. The novel opens with the abduction of two Amazonian Indian girls, an event that rips them out of their way of life and puts them into an alien land in which literally nothing has meaning for them. This is not merely displacement; it is an extinguishing of their former lives in all but their