Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

'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. Vargas Llosa's huge energy and inventiveness is extravagant and fabulously funny.' New Statesman

With novels including
The War of the End of the World,
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter,
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto and
The Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargas Llosa has established an international reputation as one of the Latin America's most important authors.