The Bad Girl

1st Edition

A Novel

Mario Vargas Llosa
eISBN-13: 9781429921558

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<p>A New York Times Notable Book of 2007<br><br>From Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa comes The Bad Girl, a "...splendid, suspenseful, and irresistible [novel]. . . A contemporary love story that explores the mores of the urban 1960s--and 70s and 80s."--The New York Times Book Review<br><br>Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as "Lily" in Lima in 1950, when she flits into his life one summer and disappears again without explanation. He loves her still when she reappears as a revolutionary in 1960s Paris, then later as Mrs. Richardson, the wife of a wealthy Englishman, and again as the mistress of a sinister Japanese businessman in Tokyo. However poorly she treats him, he is doomed to worship her. Charting Ricardo's expatriate life through his romances with this shape-shifting woman, Vargas Llosa has created a beguiling, epic romance about the life-altering power of obsession.</p>

Sold By Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBNs 1429921552, 9781429921558, 9780312427764, 9780374182434
Language eng
Number of Pages 288
Edition 1st