Mario Vargas Llosa Excerpt: The Neighborhood

The Neighborhood by Mario Vargas Llosa (translated by Edith Grossman) is a politically charged detective novel and a thrilling tale of desire and Peruvian corruption that swirls around a scandalous exposé that leads to murder (available February 27, 2018). In the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt years of Alberto Fujimori’s presidency, two wealthy…