Word: sagas
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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa (1982). Juxtaposing a romance between the narrator, Mario, 18, and his nonblood relative Julia, 32, with the saga of a writer of soap-opera scripts, this novel, set in Peru during the 1950s, displays Vargas Llosa -- now a candidate for the presidency of that troubled country -- in a wry, confessional, accessible mood that may never appear again...
...Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (1987). A modern variation on the theme of stealing fire from the gods, this saga about the beginning of the nuclear age, from inspiration to detonation, is one of the great stories of the 20th or any other century, and Rhodes has told it better than anyone before...