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Mario Vargas Llosa's amazing, multilayered book is placed in the Lima, Peru, of the writer's childhood, in which a young scholar called Marito is working away in the news headlines division of the nearby radio station. His youthful life is interrupted by two arrivals.The first is his cousin Julia, older thirteen years and lately separated, with whom he begins a secret matter. The second reason is a manic stereo scriptwriter called Pedro Camacho, whose controversial, vituperative soap operas are keeping the townis fans in thrall. Pedro selects youthful Marito to become his companion as he gradually moves insane.Interweaving the tale of Marito's existence with the ever-more-fevered stories of Pedro Camacho, Vargas Llosa's novel is amusing, naughty, and outstanding, a vintage called among the best books of the entire year by the Brand New York Times Book Review.