{"product_id":"9780312427245","title":"Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAunt Julia and the Scriptwriter\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Mario Vargas Llosa\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMario 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInterweaving 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 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Funny, extravagant . . . A wonderfully comic novel almost unbelievably rich in character, place and event.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Uproarious entertainment . . . For sheer wit, imagination, and high style, this soap opera of love can't be beat.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A bedazzlement of entertainment.” —\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of South America's finest contemporary writers.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Times (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNobel Prize For Literature (2010), Winner Nobel Prize in Literature (2010)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780312427245\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40592967237838,"sku":"9780312427245","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_7a7c2ec9-be6a-463c-b0d9-fffcb761fc27.jpg?v=1637778464","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780312427245","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}