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Cinco esquinas / The Neighborhood - Mario Vargas Llosa

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Title
Cinco esquinas / The Neighborhood
Author
Mario Vargas Llosa
format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Alfaguara
Language
Spanish
UK Publication Date
20160301

Description

La ms reciente novela del Premio Nobel de Literatura Mario Vargas Llosa.l haba pensado que, despus de todo, un periodista puede ser a veces til. "Y tambin peligroso", concluy. Tuvo el presentimiento de que nada bueno saldra de esta visita.

La idea de esta novela comenz con una imagen de dos seoras amigas que de pronto una noche, de una manera impensada para ambas, viven una situacin ertica. Luego se fue convirtiendo en una historia policial, casi un thriller, y el thriller se fue transformando en una especie de mural de la sociedad peruana en los ltimos meses o semanas de la dictadura de Fujimori y Montesinos. Me gust la idea de que la historia se llamase Cinco esquinas como un barrio que, de alguna manera, es emblemtico de Lima, de Per y tambin de la poca en la que est situada la historia.


Si hay un tema que permea, que impregna toda la historia, es el periodismo, el periodismo amarillo. La dictadura de Fujimori utiliz el periodismo amarillo, el periodismo de escndalo, como un arma poltica para desprestigiar y aniquilar moralmente a todos sus adversarios. Al mismo tiempo, tambin est la otra cara, cmo el periodismo, que puede ser algo vil y sucio, puede convertirse de pronto en un instrumento de liberacin, de defensa moral y cvica de una sociedad. Esas dos caras del periodismo son uno de los temas centrales de Cinco esquinas.
Mario Vargas Llosa

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A thrilling tale of desire and Peruvian corruption swirls around a scandalous expos that leads to murder

From
the Nobel Laureate comes a politically charged detective novel weaving
through the underbelly of Peruvian privilege. 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
exposs. 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
expos 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.

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