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The Bad Girl
A Literary Fiction Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa
Subgenres:
- Historical Romance,
- Obsessive Love,
- International Setting
This book is for you if you're into...
- Obsessive love stories that span decades and continents
- Characters who reinvent themselves in every city
- Urban 60s to 80s settings with shifting social scenes
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, 70s, and 80s.
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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