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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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Travelers, Women travelers, Fiction, Travelers in fiction, Women travelers in fiction, Ficción, Man-woman relationships, Relaciones hombre-mujer, Fiction, historical, Sisters, fiction, Chile, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Young women, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, romance, general, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Cuba, fiction, Paris (france), fiction, Abenteurerin, Erotomanie, Dolmetscher, Peruaner, Fiction (fictional works by one author), Love, Juvenile fictionShowing 10 featured editions. View all 22 editions?
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Nappŭn sonyŏ ŭi chitkujŭm: Mario Parŭgasŭ Yosa changpʻyŏn sosŏl
2011, Munhak Tongne
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Travesuras de la niña mala
2010, Santillana Ediciones Generales, S.L. (Punto de Lectura), Punto de Lectura
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Das böse Mädchen: Roman
2007, Suhrkamp, Suhrkamp Verlag AG
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Pokhozhdenii Ła skvernoi devchonki: roman
2007, Izd-vo Inostranka
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Travesuras de una niña mala
2006, Alfaguara, Santillana Ediciones Generales, Punto de lectura
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Travessuras da menina má
Nov 13, 2006, Alfaguara
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