The Bad Girl - Softcover

Llosa, Mario Vargas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 031242776X ISBN 13: 9780312427764

Publisher: Picador USA, 2008

Synopsis

A New York Times Notable Book of 2007

"Splendid, suspenseful, and irresistible . . . 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.

About this title

Review:

"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

Book Description:

A gripping and poignant new novel from one of Latin America’s greatest writers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador USA
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 031242776X
• ISBN 13: 9780312427764
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288