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The bad girl / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008, c2006.Edition: 1st Picador edDescription: 276 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 031242776X
  • 9780312427764
Uniform titles:
  • Travesuras de la niña mala. English
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Vargas Llosa, Mario Available 33111005736505
Total holds: 0

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A New York Times Notable Book of 2007

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

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.

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