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Overview

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.

Reality merges with fantasy in this hilarious comic novel about the world of radio soap operas and the pitfalls of forbidden passion by the bestselling author of The Storyteller. Sexy, sophisticated, older Aunt Julia, now divorced, seeks a new mate who can support her in high style. She finds instead her libidinous nephew, and their affair shocks both famiy and community.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312427245
  • Publisher: Picador
  • Publication date: 10/2/2007
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 384
  • Sales rank: 100,159
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.28 (h) x 1.01 (d)

Meet the Author

MARIO VARGAS LLOSA was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010 “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat.” Peru’s foremost writer, he has been awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world’s most distinguished literary honor, and the Jerusalem Prize. His many works include The Feast of the Goat, The Bad Girl, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The War of the End of the World, and The Storyteller. He lives in London.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 17, 2002

    PURE GENIUS

    Mario Vargas Llosa combines latin american folklore, traditions, and stereotypes with the real life story of his life. Alternating between the main plot and several soup operas varying from incest to rape to murder; the novel is pure genius. It leaves lots to the immagination and will surely satisfy the readers thirst for creativity, diction, and entertainment.

    5 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 27, 2005

    Simply Unputdownable!!

    To read this extraordinary book by one of the most potent writers from Latin America is a pure delight.It is almost a laugh a page!Llosa masterfully interwins a number of subplots with the main plot.The main plot is based on the terribly funny love affair of a young reporter with his aunt.The subplots consists of various radio soaps written and directed by a friend of the protagonist.The ending of the book is excellent too. A FANTASTIC book.

    4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted July 9, 2011

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    Defintiely different sense of humor

    This book was a bit difficult to get into and to read. I persevered becuase I read Noble Laureats and want to learn more about other cultures and places, which I usually enjoy. I did not find this book so enjoyable.

    Desite my frustration with the book, I think LLosa does a good job of writing in a style appropriate to the story. The way the story unfolds in his writing parallels what is happening in the book -- quite ingenious.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 24, 2011

    A Must Read

    I must start off by saying that the way the story is structured is pure genious. Throught the book varying from chapter to chapter Mario brakes away from the main story line to smaller side stories that get tied back into the main story line as you travel and progress further into the book. Dont want to talk much about the story as not to go into much detain so it would be ruined if you do choose to read it. Which you should at least twice.

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  • Posted July 25, 2011

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    Irreverent, funny, touching

    Irreverent, shockingly funny, absurd and at times heartbreakingly touching. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is about a young writer/ student in Lima Peru and an outlandish cast of characters caught up in the most absurd situations. It is a wonderfully entertaining mix of part soap opera, part short story and yes even part autobiographical material. This is my first introduction to the Nobel Prize winning author Mario Vargas Llosa. I was disappointed in and perplexed by the use of racially stereotypical material that in my opinion detracts from the overall work. There is just no justification for it. With that reservation it is a wonderfully entertaining book and I recommend it.

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  • Posted December 29, 2010

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    Good, but is it great?...

    The book was good and interesting, especially second half when plots started twisting.
    However, i am not so sure about its' Nobel prize win.. Having read some other winning books, this one doesn't seem valuable and unique enough to me - but it is just me.
    Maybe i expected more from it because of the Nobel prize (i started reading after i heard it'd won the award), but it didn't quite meet my expectations.
    Worth reading though.

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