Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: Faber Modern Classics - Softcover

Vargas Llosa, Mario

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571322824 ISBN 13: 9780571322824

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2015

Synopsis

Marito is a young Peruvian who toils away at his local radio station, dreaming of becoming a writer, before his life is torn apart by two arrivals. The first is his recently divorced Aunt Julia, with whom he begins an affair which he must hide from his family. The second is Pedro Camacho, an eccentric scriptwriter whose radio dramas are keeping the whole city enthralled. This hilarious and mischievous novel interweaves the story of Marito's life with Pedro Camacho's increasingly insane tales to masterfully depict both Peru and the act of growing up in the 1950s.

Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is a perfect introduction to one of South America's most popular and lauded writers.

About this title

About the Author

Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Peru in 1936. He is the author of some of the last half-century's most important novels, including The War of the End of the World, The Feast of the Goat, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and Conversation in the Cathedral. In 2010 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571322824
• ISBN 13: 9780571322824
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416