Aunt Julia & The Scriptwriter

Vargas, Llosa, Mario

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Mario, an aspiring writer, works at a radio station that broadcasts 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.

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Publish Date: 21/06/2012

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.

Additional information

Weight 320 g
Dimensions 197 × 127 × 25 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

410

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Dewey

863.64 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K