Book 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. 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.
