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Mario 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.

Una stira exquisita de la literatura rosa y de la novela popular que tanto xito ha tenido en los pases de habla hispana, al tiempo que cuestiona la hipocresa, el racismo y el clasismo de la sociedad limea de la poca, con la maestra a la que ya nos tiene acostumbrados. Ya en el... Read Full Overview

Una s tira exquisita de la literatura rosa y de la novela popular que tanto xito ha tenido en los pa ses de habla hispana, al tiempo que cuestiona la hipocres a, el racismo y el clasismo de la sociedad lime a de la poca, con la maestr a a la que ya nos tiene acostumbrados.... Read Full Overview

Reality merges with fantasy in this hilarious comic novel about the world of radio soap operas and the pitfalls of forbidden passion by the bestselling author of The Storyteller. Sexy, sophisticated, older Aunt Julia, now divorced, seeks a new mate who can support her in high... Read Full Overview

When sexy, sophisticated, older Aunt Julia gets divorced from her Bolivian husband, she heads home to Peru in search of a new mate who can support her in high style. She finds instead her libidinous nephew Varguitas - a young, impoverished law student who works at a ramshackle... Read Full Overview