The Green House

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This article is about the book. For the building, see greenhouse.

The Green House (La casa verde) is a 1966 novel by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. The novel is considered a central work for the new Spanish American novel style that arose in the 1960s, and has been much commented on by literary scholars. It features a convoluted, puzzle-like narrative style that is reminiscent of William Faulkner and Franz Kafka. Vargas Llosa presents several narrative lines, and moves back and forth between them by means of a difficult and non-chronological narrative logic. The reader must piece together these lines in order to construct the story. The novel finally serves as a critique of Peruvian society.