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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Location(s): Peru
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): 1950s
Set in Peru during the 1950s, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is the story of an 18 year old student who falls for a 32 year old divorcee.
Mario, an aspiring writer, works at a radio station that broadcasts, live each day, up to a half-dozen short-run soap operas. At the same time that the author meets his “Aunt Julia”, the radio station, which had been buying scripts by weight from Cuba, hires a Bolivian scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho to write the serials.
The novel chronicles the scriptwriter’s rise and fall in tandem with the protagonist’s affair.
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