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Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter

By Mario Vargas Llosa

Book information

Publisher
Picador
Year
2007
ISBN
9780312427245
Google Books ID
07xI6H66nb0C
Open Library ID
OL9664290M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
494 kB (505965 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
377\0
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

Mario 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.

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