Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
of Mario Vargas Llosa, Helen R. Lane (Translator)
Description
Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima 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 masterfully done, hilarious, mischievous, a classic named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 374 pages
- Publisher Penguin Books
- Publication Date October 1st 1995
- First Publication 10/28/77
- Language English
- ISBN 9780140248920
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Lima (Peru)', 'Peru (Perú) (Peru)']
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