num_pages: 410
description: 'A comic novel on the grand scale written with tremendous confidence and verve. Mario, 18-year-old law student and radio news-editor, falls scandalously for his Aunt Julia, the 32-year-old divorced wife of a cousin, and the progressively lunatic story of this affair is interwoven with episodes from a series of radio soap-operas written by his friend Pedro Comacho. Llosa's huge energy and inventiveness is extravagant and fabulously funny.' - "New Statesman".
language: English
title: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
titlecomplete: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
characters: Pedro Camacho, Julia, Mario, Javier
genres: Classics, Latin American Literature, Latin American, Nobel Prize, Novels, Spanish Literature, Romance, 20th Century, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 20060
places: Lima, Peru
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
category: Roman
publisher: Faber