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ISBN-10: 0312427247
ISBN-13: 9780312427245
Publisher: Picador USA
Publish Date: 10/02/2007
Dimensions: 8.31" L, 5.48" W, 1.02" H

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

Translator: Helen R Lane

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Price: $21.00

Overview

When sexy, sophisticated, older Aunt Julia gets divorced from her Bolivian husband, she heads home to Peru in search of a new mate who can support her in high style. She finds instead her libidinous nephew Varguitas – a young, impoverished law student who works at a ramshackle radio station and aspires to be a fiction writer. Will their love survive the horror of the family? The shock of the community? The considerable difference in their ages? Meanwhile, a new, hotshot scriptwriter of racy radio soap operas, who turns out stories filled with murder, incest, rape, and perversion, has all of Peru listening in. Reality merges with fantasy as Mario Vargas Llosa juggles a madcap cast of characters and carouses through a world of forbidden passion, in a novel “The New York Times Book Review” named one of the twelve best of 1982.

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"Funny, extravagant . . . A wonderfully comic novel almost unbelievably rich in character, place and event." –Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Uproarious entertainment . . . For sheer wit, imagination, and high style, this soap opera of love can't be beat." –The Christian Science Monitor

"A bedazzlement of entertainment." –Time

"One of South America's finest contemporary writers." –The Times (London)

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Details

ISBN-10: 0312427247
ISBN-13: 9780312427245
Publisher: Picador USA
Publish Date: 10/02/2007
Dimensions: 8.31" L, 5.48" W, 1.02" H
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