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title: "The Green House"
brand: "mario vargas llosa"
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# The Green House

**Brand:** mario vargas llosa
**Price:** 4972 kr
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- **What is this?** The Green House by mario vargas llosa
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The Green House

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Seminal
  

*by T***H on Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2015*

The novel that deservedly established Vargas Llosa as one of the premier Latin American authors writing in Spanish.  This is a seminal work that provides the foundation for much of Vargas Llosa's subsequent output, a portrait of his beloved Peru.  The novel demands one's full attention, perhaps even taking notes, to keep the characters and events straight because dialogue is written as it might actually occur among groups of characters and events are not always narrated in sequence.  But one finds many, many passages of great beauty, particularly in descriptions of nature.  One needs to clear one's mind and dedicate a period of time to reading this piece.  The translation is remarkable.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    why he won the  prize
  

*by L***R on Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2012*

I bought the 1st edition avon mass market paper back in 1980. A case of judging a book by it's cover. Since than I have read the book several times, it is addictive. This novel is Llosa in his prime, full of mystery, romance, humor and history. The writing is so hypnotic and poetic that open up any page and you are trapped in world that you can leave only reluctantly . One of the worlds truly great books. As for being a difficult read, it is as easy as watching a movie.The theme of this novel , as in most of Llosas novels, are the absurdities and consequences of bigotry ,this time played out in Peru circa world war two?I believe that it is his humanism coupled with his great and innovative story telling skills that won Llosa his Noble prize.This is Llosa at his best ,and what a beautiful cover by Vincent Calabrese.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    I'm comfortable saying that this book is a "masterpiece" if "masterpiece" ...
  

*by M***. on Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2016*

I studied English and fiction in college.  I'm comfortable saying that this book is a "masterpiece" if "masterpiece" means that I think it is the kind of book that can stay around for many years and might be taught in a class that teaches literature as classical art.That said, I don't think that if this book were written in English and submitted to a publisher today in the US that there is any way it would be published.  I have read four of Vargas Llosa's books.  My favorite was the War of the End of the world.  I don't know if I would say that this is my least favorite exactly, but it's the least forgiving of them.For the most part, you can get the hang of the way the story is told.  There are some events that I couldn't place exactly in a time line but most of the events that I couldn't place exactly didn't necessarily need to be placed exactly.I think if you're looking up Vargas Llosa you're going to read him anyway because he's a nobel winner.  I just want to give anyone reading this a heads up that this is basically on the level of difficulty of any work by faulker.  The long paragraphs are usually not really long paragraphs of description that break up conversation but they're actually just more dialogue except that its narrated without quotation marks and everything is on the same line.  For this reason, I would say the book is literally about 85% dialogue.You meet Lituma in like the third chapter, so I wouldn't exactly call this a spoiler.  He was in jail for a reason I won't divulge.  I read the entire book without know exactly how long he was in jail, and it turned out to be longer than I thought it was when I looked it up online.  I also thought I knew the reason, and I turned out to be right, but because of the way things were narrated I wasn't actually sure.I've read a lot of faulkner.  I've read joyce and pynchon and gaddis and a bunch of other people.  I'm ok with uncertainty in text, but it irritates me that I missed the detail of how long he was in prison and the misunderstanding changed my understanding of what was happening in the story.  Basically I just want to give you a forewarning that if you do not like difficult books than you shouldn't even bother reading this.  If you don't mind uncertainty in text it's overall an enjoyable experience.  The only thing I would say is that for me some of the reading of this was disappointing because all i was thinking was "Feast of the Goat and War at the end of the World are way better."Regardless, I'm glad I read this book and I think it's a worthwhile investment of your time if you are willing to reread some sections.

## Frequently Bought Together

- GRN HSE PB Vargas Llosa, Mario
- Death of Artemio Cruz

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