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The school itself burnt 1,000 copies of the novel on its grounds, Vargas Llosa claimed.

"Unfortunately, when someone gets burnt once they're always going to have that same feeling towards other products and are always going to be that extra bit cautious about buying designer products," he said.

"Without the insects and with burnt, blackened bare ground, they will not have the homes that they've flown here for," he said.

Storefronts were either shuttered, defaced, or both, with the husks of burnt cars lining the side of the road.

He noted there had been a flurry of content created around the LA wildfires, including a video of a burnt Oscars trophy.