Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter in Around the World

Oct 08, 2012 Lisa (Harmonybites) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, 2012-around-the-world, novels, literary-fiction, contemporary, humor-and-comedy

I found myself underwhelmed by Borges and Marquez; their brand of "magical realism" turned out not to be my cuppa. I found myself much, much happier with Mario Vargas Llosa's Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. The book's chapters alternate between young "Marito's" first person account of his love affair with his much older in-law Aunt Julia, and the third-person tales of "the scriptwriter" of a popular radio soap opera. I found both parts equally engaging. Given that "Marito" is a diminutive for M ...more

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Jul 02, 2012 Beth rated it really liked it

Shelves: around-the-world-group, ebooks, nobel

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa is a delightful romp through the streets of Lima. The novel alternates between the tale of a young law student's romance with his aunt's sister who arrives from Bolivia after her divorce and episodes of the radio serials composed by the recently hired Bolivian scriptwriter working at a station owned by the laws student's employers. The protagonist has a part time job at the other station in the same group, as news director, and he befriends t ...more

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Jan 29, 2011 Shahar rated it really liked it

From time to time I like to leave the familiar and taste a new writer and hopefully a new world. Last year I was exposed to Peru through films that showed me a different world from which I knew about the Peru (Relics and bus drivers turning off the engine when going downhill) ,This book lifts the veil even further and stimulates a desire to know the country and its people more.
The book is written on two levels - one story is of Mario and Aunt Julia and the other are radio plays which are like s ...more

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Apr 18, 2011 Preethi rated it liked it

Shelves: own-a-copy, can-do-without-reading-this, love-luuurve-lou

I dilli-dallied between giving this book 3.5 or 4 stars, and am sticking to my 3 stars. Don't get me wrong, Llosa is a brilliant writer and an author whose books I am going to continue reading, it was this book that ticked me off slightly.

This book is about the author's romance with his Aunt Julia and nuggets about his friendship with a maniacal scriptwriter, Pedro Camocha and other friends. The romance with Julia and his relationship with his friends are dealt in alternate chapters, and the sto ...more

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