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The Green House (Original title: La Casa Verde) is the second novel by the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, published in 1966.The novel is set over a period of forty years (from the early part of the 20th century to the 1960s) in two regions of Peru: Piura, a dusty town near the coast in the north, and Peruvian Amazonia, specifically the jungle region near the Marañón river.
Vargas Llosa rose to international fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y los perros, literally The City and the Dogs, 1963/1966), [8] The Green House (La casa verde, 1965/1968), and the monumental Conversation in The Cathedral (Conversación en La Catedral, 1969/1975).
It is generally believed that Vargas Llosa's five milestone novels are La Ciudad y Los Perros (The Time of the Hero), La Casa Verde (The Green House), Conversación en La Catedral (Conversation in The Cathedral), The War of the End of the World and La Fiesta Del Chivo (The Feast of the Goat) [citation needed].
In his Nobel lecture Elogio de la lectura y la ficción, delivered at the Swedish Academy on 7 December 2010, [8] Vargas Llosa paid tribute to the power of fiction and said he believed it was essential to a healthy society. "We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and ...
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1963 La ciudad y los perros Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) 1964 A Paixão segundo G.H. Clarice Lispector (Brazil) 1965 O Vampiro de Curitiba Dalton Trevisan (Brazil) 1965 Marzo anterior José Balza (Venezuela) 1966 Cenizas de Izalco Claribel Alegría (El Salvador) 1966 La casa verde Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) 1966 Paradiso José Lezama Lima (Cuba)
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