Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter

By:

Llosa, Mario Vargas

Contributor(s):

Lane, Helen R [Translator]

Material type:

TextPublication details: New York: Picador, 2007.Description: 374p.: pbk.: 20cmISBN:

9780312427245

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

863 LLO

Summary: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 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. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312427245/auntjuliaandthescriptwriter/

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
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Translation of Spainish Novel- La tía Julia y el escribidor

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
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.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312427245/auntjuliaandthescriptwriter/

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