Peru

Mario Vargas Llosa Excerpt: The Neighborhood

By Mario Vargas Llosa

February 2, 2018

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…

The Ice Maiden of Peru

Peruvian Mummies Still Talk

By Cecilia Velastegui

June 15, 2013

Peruvian mummies refuse to play dead. In fact, despite their now empty craniums and lifeblood that has long drained from their bodies, their hushed demands or whispers of love can still be heard by those who carry within them the mummies’ inherited DNA. But it is only a handful of their descendants who still honor…