Set in Peru during the 1950s, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is the story of an 18 year old student who falls for a 32 year old divorcee. Mario, an aspiring writer, works at a radio station that broadcasts, live each day, up to a half-dozen short-run soap operas. At the same time that the author meets his "Aunt Julia", the radio station, which had been buying scripts by weight from Cuba, hires a Bolivian scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho to write the serials. The novel chronicles the scriptwriter's rise and fall in tandem with the protagonist's affair.
ISBN: | 9780571288601 |
Publication date: | 21st June 2012 |
Author: | Mario Vargas Llosa |
Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 416 pages |
Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |