Full name: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: A Novel

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Year: 1977 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Romance, Humor, Romance Culture: Latin-American Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780140248920 9780312427245 0140248927 0312427247

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. Similar books: Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa The Storyteller by Mario Vargas Llosa The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto by Mario Vargas Llosa The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta by Mario Vargas Llosa The Green House by Mario Vargas Llosa The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa Who Killed Palomino Molero? by Mario Vargas Llosa The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Eva Luna by Isabel Allende In Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas Llosa The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The bomb party by Graham Greene Just One Of The Guys by Kristan Higgins Too Good to Be True by Kristan Higgins Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie Fools Rush In by Kristan Higgins Shopgirl by Steve Martin