The Bad Girl

by Mario Vargas Llosa (Author), Mario Vargas Llosa (Author), Edith Grossman (Translator)

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2008
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When the beautiful teenage Lily arrives in Lima in 1950, fifteen-year-old Ricardo falls instantly in love with her. She claims to be from Chile, but vanishes the moment it becomes clear that she has lied about both her name and her nationality. A decade later, now living in Paris, Ricardo falls in love with a woman named Comrade Arlette, who is incredibly similar to Lily but refuses to acknowledge that she is the same person. For his whole life, Ricardo seems doomed to keep running into 'Lily', and to keep falling in love with her. Will he ever discover who she really is?

Synopsis

When the beautiful teenage Lily arrives in Lima in 1950, fifteen-year-old Ricardo falls instantly in love with her. She claims to be from Chile, but vanishes the moment it becomes clear that she has lied about both her name and her nationality. A decade later, now living in Paris, Ricardo falls in love with a woman named Comrade Arlette, who is incredibly similar to Lily but refuses to acknowledge that she is the same person. For his whole life, Ricardo seems doomed to keep running into 'Lily', and to keep falling in love with her. Will he ever discover who she really is?

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 07 Aug 2008
ISBN 10: 0571234119
ISBN 13: 9780571234110
Book Overview: The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa is a gripping and poignant novel about a mysterious romance from one of Latin America's greatest writers.

Media Reviews

A marvelous novel. -- Chicago Tribune

A beautifully constructed, stinging tease of a novel. -- The Seattle Times

Spans decades and continents--and in the process, with a deftness that borders on literary sleight of hand, bridges the personal and the universal. -- San Francisco Chronicle

Perversely charming . . . irresistibly entertaining. -- The Washington Post Book World

Llosa writes an unabashed love story and makes no apologies for it. He seamlessly weaves it into the rich texture of the social atmosphere of the times. . . . Written with passion and energy that delivers. -- Rocky Mountain News
Perversely charming . . . irresistibly entertaining. -- The Washington Post Book World
A marvelous novel. -- Chicago Tribune
Spans decades and continents--and in the process, with a deftness that borders on literary sleight of hand, bridges the personal and the universal. -- San Francisco Chronicle
A beautifully constructed, stinging tease of a novel. -- The Seattle Times

Llosa writes an unabashed love story and makes no apologies for it. He seamlessly weaves it into the rich texture of the social atmosphere of the times. . . . Written with passion and energy that delivers. -- Rocky Mountain News

Perversely charming . . . irresistibly entertaining. -- The Washington Post Book World

A marvelous novel. -- Chicago Tribune

Spans decades and continents--and in the process, with a deftness that borders on literary sleight of hand, bridges the personal and the universal. -- San Francisco Chronicle

A beautifully constructed, stinging tease of a novel. -- The Seattle Times

Author Bio

With novels including The War of the End of the World, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto and The Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargas Llosa has established an international reputation as one of the Latin America's most important authors.