This is a book of undeniable interest, written by the first wife of Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the great novelists of the past century and the 2010 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. It is an account of the profoundly sad, tragic love of a woman who still is the unsung heroine behind Vargas Llosa's early success and claim to glory. That woman, Julia Urquidi, was immortalized in Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter; but after finishing her memoir the reader will get away with a far better knowledge of her as a human being --a victim of the romantic dynamics that happen in the unfair real reality, as opposed to the ideal nature of the bleakest of fictions.
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