The Green House (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
- First Published: 1965
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Forty years that include World War II
- Setting: Piura and the Amazon jungle, Peru
- Principal Characters: Don Anselmo, Fushía, Lalita, Aquilino, Nieves, Julio Reátegui, Jum, Bonifacia, Lituma
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1940’s, Prostitution or prostitutes, 1920’s, 1930’s, Native Americans or American Indians, Jungles or rain forests, Rivers or waterways, Amazon, South America or South Americans, Peru or Peruvians, Convents or nunneries
- Locales: Peru
The Story:
Nuns and soldiers snatched two Indian girls out of the jungle to civilize them. They were taken to the mission school. There, Bonifacia took pity on them. Corporal Roberto Delgado went to Bagua, taking Adrian Nieves for a pilot. The Leons told Josefino that Lituma was out of jail and wanted to celebrate. Bonifacia felt sorry for the two new girls because they wanted to leave. When they left, the other girls followed them. Bonifacia would be blamed, expelled, and left homeless. A trader with the Indians, Fushía needed a partner, so he made friends with Aquilino, a...
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