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Together, they trade goods by boat to rubber and timber workers and gold prospectors. At novel's end, Lituma has returned to Piura and is living off his wife's income from prostitution.ĭuring the 1920s, after escaping from prison in Brazil (he had been arrested for accounting theft), Fushia flees to Peru, where he meets a poor water vendor, Aquilino. While he is away, his friends rape Bonifacia, who then becomes a prostitute at the Green House. They return to Piura and live together until Lituma takes part in a fatal game of Russian roulette and is sentenced to ten years in jail. Lituma serves in the Amazon region, where he meets his future bride, Bonifacia. In the 1930s, a Piruan native, Lituma, joins the military (in a drunken burst of patriotism after the Piruan born colonel, Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro, becomes President of Peru through a military coup). His daughter, Chunga, grows up in this environment and eventually builds a new Green House, where Anselmo plays his music.
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Grief-stricken, Anselmo becomes a homeless drunkard, supporting himself by playing the harp in the town's bars and brothels. Outraged, the village priest, Father Garcia, leads the townspeople to burn down the Green House. She dies giving birth to a daughter, Chunga. The effect is to interweave past and present and to suggest an omnipresent and continuing corruption and brutality.ĭuring the early years of the 20th century, a mysterious stranger named Anselmo, whose origins and motives are never explained, builds a popular brothel, the Green House, in the desert on the outskirts of Piura.Īntonia (Tonita) is left for dead after her adoptive parents are killed by bandits her eyes and tongue are plucked out by vultures, but she survives and is raised by a poor villager, Juana Barra, until Anselmo abducts and keeps her in a room in a tower of the Green House as his wife. He also creates double narratives within chapters without clear demarcation. Vargas Llosa adds to this narrative complexity by referring to characters obliquely ("the lieutenant", "the native", etc.) and by telling the story non-chronologically (parallel narratives may be decades apart). The novel concludes with a five-chapter epilogue. Each chapter is further divided into five separate narratives: 1) Bonifacia in the jungle region, 2) Fushia and Aquilino on the Marañón, 3) Anselmo in Piura, 4) various characters involved in power struggles in the jungle, and 5) Lituma and Bonifacia in Piura. Each part is then broken into chapters (Parts One and Three have four chapters each Parts Two and Four, three). The story is broken into five parts, each of which begins with an impressionistic narrative without paragraph breaks. The author also picked up several stories during his trip through the jungle in 1958 that was used in the novel, including the story about one of the main characters, Fushia. It's something I've never been able to forget."
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So the clients used to come in there and take the women out to make love in the dunes, under the stars. Because they're almost mythical characters to me, I've kept their names intact in the book. Still it left quite an impression on me.″ Six years later Vargas Llosa visited the place and found out that "it had a very strange atmosphere″ ″It was nothing but a single huge room, where the women were, and where there was a three-man combo made up of an old blind man, playing the harp, a guitarist known as ′el Joven′ (The Young One), and a lumbering giant who looked like a catch-wrestler or a truckdriver, who played the drums and cymbals and was known as Bolas (Balls). Of course I never dared go anywhere near it. For us children there was something fascinating about it. It was a green house – or cabin – in the middle of the dunes, on the outskirts of the city, right in the desert, across the river. The oldest of the stories that compose the book dates back to Piura: ″It's a story of a brothel in Piura, which I remember vividly from when I was in fifth grade of grammar school. Vargas Llosa has described the novel as "a fusion of very different experiences" that had impressed him. The novel was inspired by memories of the author's youth in Piura and a journey through the jungle he made in 1958.