Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

Partly based on the author's own youth, this comic novel is set in 1950s Lima. Marito is a young student working at a radio station, who falls in love with his much older aunt by marriage, Julia. Their romance causes scandal in his family.

Alongside it, the book presents the melodramatic radio serials written by Pedro Camacho, a tireless scriptwriter whose plots grow increasingly strange and tangled. The two strands alternate, one of memory and love, the other of wild invention. The result is a lively, funny novel about writing, popular entertainment and growing up.