Mario Vargas Llosa is a world-famous Peruvian prose writer, one of the creators of the “boom” of Latin American prose, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded to him in 2010. Among the dozens of novels he created over half a century of literary creativity, the book “Aunt Julia and the Scribe” stands out. At the center of the young journalist’s story is a distant relative Julia, with whom he manages to fall in love, despite the considerable age difference, and a man named Pedro Camacho . A strange guy tirelessly writes scripts for radio series, replacing “soap operas” in a country where there is no television. He plays the main male roles in them and is also the director. Radio plays are extremely popular, crowds of fans are on duty near the radio station, and everything would be fine, but reality is constantly confused with fiction, and strange twists suddenly begin to appear in the plots.