Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

Author(s): Llosa, Mario Vargas
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 21/06/2012,
Pagination: 416 pages,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780571288601,
Description:

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.