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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: Faber Modern Classics

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: Faber Modern Classics
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Mario Vargas Llosa
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:416
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 128
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780571322824
ClassificationsDewey:863.64
Audience
General
Edition Main - Faber Modern Classics

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 4 June 2015
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

Mario Vargas-Llosa was born in Peru is 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.