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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

by Mario Vargas Llosa

Private life and radio melodrama in Lima

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Awards & Recognition

  • Editorial selection

    A New York Times Book Review best book of the year

    Named one of the best books of the year.

  • Author recognition

    Mario Vargas Llosa — Nobel Prize in Literature winner

    The metadata identifies Mario Vargas Llosa as a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Private life and radio melodrama in Lima

Set in the Lima of Marito’s youth, the novel brings together his work in a radio station’s news department, a secret affair with his aunt Julia, and the increasingly unsettled world of scriptwriter Pedro Camacho. Its structure interweaves Marito’s personal story with the soap operas Camacho creates, linking an intimate coming-of-age plot to the city’s appetite for serial drama. The contrast between everyday life and the scriptwriter’s fevered stories gives the book a distinctive focus on storytelling and the boundary between invention and lived experience.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in literary fiction set in Lima, Peru.
  • For readers who enjoy novels that weave a personal story together with stories-within-the-story.
  • For readers interested in radio, serialized melodrama, and a young protagonist’s changing relationships.

Themes

Storytelling and inventionComing of ageSecret relationshipsRadio and popular melodrama

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Book overview

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

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.

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