A Special Evening - May 17th

The next book we will discuss is Nobel Prize Winner Mario Vargas Llosa’s Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. This multilayered, comic novel, published in 1977, is set in Lima, Peru. Marito, a student who works in the news department of a local radio station, finds his young life disrupted by two arrivals. “The 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 soap operas are holding the city's listeners in thrall.” Named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review, Llosa’s work mixes paradox and satire “to explore the creative process of writing and its relation to the daily lives of writers.”


This book group will be slightly different. We will meet at the home of Debbie Shkurovich for dinner. As the book was translated from Spanish, she will facilitate the discussion and perhaps illuminate us to the differences between the original and the translation. This should be an enlightening and enjoyable evening. Please, if you plan on attending, you will need to RSVP by May 6th.  Upon  RSVP, you will recieve the address and additional information.