Cinco Esquinas By Mario Vargas Llosa

Cinco Esquinas By Mario Vargas Llosa

Opinion By: Erreh Svaia

Just finished reading Cinco Esquinas (Five Corners), the latest novel by Peruvian Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa, honestly I'm not too enthusiastic about it, as there's nothing really transcendental in it, historically is interesting of course, as it tackles some of the corruption, blackmailing and propaganda present in the Fujimori days, the pace is vertiginous, and the interlinked stories have some charm, but in the end is not too far removed from Stieg Larsson's Millennium series, but obviously lacking the former dark suspense, the characters are far from remarkable, but I guess that's exactly how Vargas Llosa wanted them to be, unfortunately, this is the time for a really big novel capturing the heath of the moment, with the China withdrawal from the region, the fall of the Latin left wing governments and the supposed soft coup d'etat in Brazil and Argentina, along the remaining dictatorships like Cuba, the new one's like Nicaragua and the decaying ones like Venezuela.