The Green House

First American Edition, First Printing (1968). The second award-winning novel from Mario Vargas Llosa. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Fine in publisher's original green cloth, with rich, green topstain. Near fine in original, first state, pictorial dust jacket, richly colored with no fading and only a slight closed tear at the top cover edge, otherwise fine. Internally fine, content bright and unmarred. Binding square ands tight. Translated from the original Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. Jacket design by Guy Fleming. Octavo. 405 pp. + Author Overview. A amazing copy of the novel that firmly established Llosa as one of the great 20th Century authors. 

Set of a period of 40 years from the 1920s to the 1960, the Green House draws on Llosa's experiences growing up near a brothel in the northwestern Peruvian town of Piura and reflects Peruvian society's vast inequalities. The masterwork juggles multiple plots, locations, shifting points of view and more than 30 characters. "Mario Vargas Llosa's message seems to be that man, like the jungle, has a mysterious energy which cannot in the end be explained or subdued. His characters may be saints, villains, victims, or nothing in particular, but they break out of the pages of this magnificent novel with the stubborn uncontainability of life itself" (V.S. Pritchett, The New Statesman).