Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as 'Lily' in Llama in 1950, when she arrives one summer out of the blue, claiming to be from Chile but vanishing the moment her claim is exposed as fiction. He loves her next …
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Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as 'Lily' in Llama in 1950, when she arrives one summer out of the blue, claiming to be from Chile but vanishing the moment her claim is exposed as fiction. He loves her next in Paris, where she appears as the enchanting 'Comrade Arlette', an activist en route to Cuba, and becomes his lover, albeit an icy, remote one who denies knowing anything about the Lily of years gone by. Whoever the bad girl turns up as - whether it's Madame Robert Arnoux, the wife of a high-ranking UNESCO official, or Kuriko, the mistress of a sinister Japanese businessman - 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 an unclear as what has become of Ricardo himself, a lifelong expatriate shadowed by the sense that he is only ever drifting.
Mario Vargas Llosa's beguiling new novel The Bad Girl, tries to differentiate between the strange bedfellows of good and bad, proving that either can turn out not what they appear to be.
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The Bad Girl
Hardcover, 288 pages
English language
Published Oct. 2, 2007 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Travessuras da menina má
Paperback
Portuguese language
Published Nov. 13, 2006 by Alfaguara.
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The Bad Girl
276 pages
English language
Published May 11, 2007 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Travesuras de la niña mala
Paperback, 418 pages
Published May 11, 2010 by Santillana Ediciones Generales, S.L. (Punto de Lectura).
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Hınzır Kız
Paperback
Turkish language
Published April 13, 2015 by Can Yayinlari.
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Pokhozhdenii Ła skvernoi devchonki
608 pages
Spanish language
Published May 11, 2007 by Izd-vo Inostranka.
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- OCLC Number:
- 166326598
Nappŭn sonyŏ ŭi chitkujŭm
547 pages
Korean language
Published May 11, 2011 by Munhak Tongne.
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Travesuras de una niña mala
Paperback
Published May 11, 2006 by Alfaguara, Santillana Ediciones Generales.
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Das böse Mädchen
taschenbuch, 395 pages
German language
Published Feb. 13, 2008 by Suhrkamp.
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- OCLC Number:
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Szelmostwa niegrzecznej dziewczynki
Polish language
Published May 11, 2011 by Znak Wydawnictwo.
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To paliokoritso
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Published May 11, 2007 by Kastanioti.
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Szelmostwa niegrzecznej dziewczynki
Published May 11, 2009 by Wydawnictwo Znak.
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Travesuras de La Nina Mala
Paperback
Spanish language
Published April 11, 2006 by Alfaguara.
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Travesuras de la niña mala
432 pages
Spanish language
Published May 11, 2017 by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial.
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