{"product_id":"aunt-julia-and-the-scriptwriter-9780312427245","title":"Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter","description":"\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/02\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312427245\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.31h x 5.48w x 1.02d","brand":"Mario Vargas Llosa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36635881308316,"sku":"9780312427245","price":17.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_8fbdf957-6a64-4e82-bfaf-addcbd4a04b4.jpg?v=1603840782","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/aunt-julia-and-the-scriptwriter-9780312427245","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}