Translated to Arabic «La Casa Verde» (The Green House), a novel by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa (b. 1936). First 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 far from each other: Piura, in the desert of the Peruvian coast, and Santa María de Nieva, a factory and religious mission lost in the heart of the Amazon. A symbol of history is the mythical house of pleasure that Don Anselmo, the stranger, erects on the outskirts of Piura.
Translation of Rifaat Atifah