Books with title Safety in the neighborhood

From the Nobel Laureate comes a politically charged detective novel weaving through the underbelly of Peruvian privilege. In the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt years of Alberto Fujimori's presidency, two wealthy couples of Lima's high society become embroiled in a disturbing vortex of erotic adventures and politically driven blackmail. One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposes. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and demands that he invest in the magazine. Enrique refuses, and the next day the pictures are on the front page. Meanwhile, Enrique's wife is in the midst of a passionate and secret affair with the wife of Enrique's lawyer and best friend. When Garro shows up murdered, the two couples are thrown into a whirlwind of navigating Peru's unspoken laws and customs, while the staff of the magazine embark on their greatest expose yet. Ironic and sensual, provocative and redemptive, the novel swirls into the kind of restless realism that has become Mario Vargas Llosa's signature style. A twisting, unpredictable tale, The Neighborhood is at once a scathing indictment of Fujimori's regime and a crime thriller that evokes the vulgarity of freedom in a corrupt system.

10-year-old Liz Olson published The Neighborhood News from 1965 to 1966. Her newspaper captured the humor, meaning, and brilliance of everyday life in Sarasota, Florida. Today she lives in Los Angeles, CA.*“…here in Sarasota there is a little girl not yet in her ’teens who publishes a two-page “newspaper” called The Neighborhood News.… Residents of the area look forward to each Sunday to see what the youngsters have found to write about during the week.”— THE HERALD-TRIBUNE, 1965“The Neighborhood News is refreshing and shows the result of the natural, uncluttered, inexperienced writings of youngsters.”— THE HERALD-TRIBUNE, 1966“The staff [are] children… Reporter Liz Olson and Cub Reporter Bobby Olson. A neighbor, Jane Hyde, is editor. They gather and write the actual news items for their weekly and are aided in the handling of the little hand-printing press by friendly adults.”— THE HERALD-TRIBUNE, 1966