Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa
Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as 'Lily' in Lima in 1950, where she claims to be from Chile but vanishes the moment her claim is exposed as fiction. He loves her next in Paris as 'Comrade Arlette', an activist en route to Cuba, an icy, remote lover who denies knowing anything about the Lily of years gone by. Whoever the bad girl turns up as and however poorly she treats him, Ricardo is doomed to worship her. Gifted liar and irresistible, maddening muse - does Ricardo ever know who she really is? The answer is as unclear as what has become of Ricardo himself - a lifelong expatriate shadowed by the sense that he is only ever drifting. In Mario Vargas Llosa's beguiling new novel, the strange bedfellows of good and bad turn out not to be what they appear.
Born in Peru in 1936, Vargas Llosa has written numerous prize-winning novels including The War of the End of the World, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and The Feast of the Goat. Politically active and outspoken, he has built an international reputation as one of Latin America's most important authors.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571234103 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571234100 |
| Title | Bad Girl |
| Author | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2008-01-03 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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