Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

About this book

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREMario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals.The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirteen years older, with whom he begins a secret affair. The second is a manic radio scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho, whose racy, vituperative soap operas are holding the city's listeners in thrall. Pedro chooses young Marito to be his confidant as he slowly goes insane.Interweaving the story of Marito's life with the ever-more-fevered tales of Pedro Camacho, Vargas Llosa's novel is hilarious, mischievous, and masterful, a classic named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review.

About the author

Mario Vargas Llosa has 6 books in the store, published between 1998 and 2027, mostly in Fiction.

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9780312427245

Publisher

Picador USA

Published

October 2, 2007

Pages

384

Weight

12.6 oz

Subject

Fiction