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    <body><![CDATA[Puedo fechar con exactitud cuando lei este libro: entre el 2 y el 3 de febrero del 2008, mientras convalecia de una gripe que me tenia ya 3 dias sin salir de la casa. <br/><br/>Anticipaba el placer de leer, mientras hacia lo posible por terminar &quot;Lord of the Flies&quot;, que francamente termi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14450827">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Ricardo, at an early age, sees his life-long dream fulfilled: to live in Paris. But an encounter with a past love will change everything. The young girl, adventurer, pragmatic, wicked, calculating, and mischievous, will drag him out of his small world of ambitions. This is the story of the intimate love that occupies more than three decades of Ricardos life, and it is also a fascinating tale traveling through Europe, South America, and Japan.    Starring in the backdrop are Perus history from 1950 to 1987 and its swinging from democracy to dictatorship; Paris in the sixties and its great philosophers Sartre and Camus; the decade of the 70s in London, the birth of a new culture, drugs, music, hippies, freedom of love; Japans big dealer lords, and, finally, Spain halfway through the 80s.    Creating an admirable tension between comedy and tragedy, Mario Vargas Llosa plays with reality and fiction to release a story in which love presents itself as indefinable, owner of a thousand faces, just like the mischievous girl. Passion and distance, chance and destiny, pain and pleasure... Which is the true face of love?    Description in Spanish: Ricardo ve cumplido, a una edad muy temprana, el sueño que en su Lima natal alimentó desde que tenía uso de razón: vivir en París. Pero el rencuentro con un amor de adolescencia lo cambiará todo. La joven, inconformista, aventurera, pragmática e inquieta, lo arrastrará fuera del pequeño mundo de sus ambiciones.    Testigos de épocas convulsas y florecientes en ciudades como Londres, París, Tokio o Madrid, que aquí son mucho más que escenarios, ambos personajes verán sus vidas entrelazarse sin llegar a coincidir del todo. Sin embargo, esta danza de encuentros y desencuentros hará crecer la intensidad del relato página a página hasta propiciar una verdadera fusión del lector con el universo emocional de los protagonistas.    Creando una admirable tensión entre lo cómico y lo trágico, Mario Vargas Llosa juega con la realidad y la ficción para liberar una historia en la que el amor se nos muestra indefinible, dueño de mil caras, como la niña mala. Pasión y distancia, azar y destino, dolor y disfrute... ¿Cuál es el verdadero rostro del amor?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I became completely mesmerized by this book of obsessive love. The bad girl is a Peruvian girl the narrator knew when he was a boy, and she keeps coming in and out of his life in different identities. The more cruel she is to him, the more he loves her. But this intelligent, articulate, sensitive ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12987287">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p><strong><em>A </em></strong><strong>New York Times </strong><strong><em>Notable Book of 2007<br/></em></strong><strong><em><br/></em>&quot;Splendid, suspenseful, and irresistible . . . A contemporary love story that explores the mores of the urban 1960s--and 70s and 80s.&quot;--</strong><strong><em>The New York Times Book Review<br/><br/></em></strong>Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as &quot;Lily&quot; 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.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[ La obra se centra en Ricardo, un chico con la sola ambición de vivir en Paris, y como luego de conocer a Lily, una llamativa muchachita de Chile que con su rápido hablar y destreza para el baile logra que él se enamore perdidamente. Ella, como se puede constatar al adentrarse en la novela, es un...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40458290">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p><strong><em>A </em></strong><strong>New York Times </strong><strong><em>Notable Book of 2007<br/></em></strong><strong><em><br/></em>&quot;Splendid, suspenseful, and irresistible . . . A contemporary love story that explores the mores of the urban 1960s--and 70s and 80s.&quot;--</strong><strong><em>The New York Times Book Review<br/><br/></em></strong>Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as &quot;Lily&quot; 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.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book begins innocently enough. It is the childhood of the narrator and he falls in love, hard, with Lilly, a Chilean girl who is beautiful and vivacious, but while they are always together and share some romantic exchanges, she refuses his attempts for her to be going stead with him.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56400004">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as “Lily” in Lima 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 fficial, or Kuriko, the mistress of a sinister Japanese businessman—and however poorly she treats him, Ricardo is doomed to worship her.<br/> <br/><br/>The protean Lily, 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.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>No one can quite understand why Mario Vargas Llosa hasn't yet won the Nobel Prize in Literature. As <em>The Bad Girl </em>proves, Vargas Llosa can create something new and exciting even out of a well-worn plot and stock characters. Though this isn't one of his major works (see our profile of Vargas Llosa in ...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45462843">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p><strong><em>A </em></strong><strong>New York Times </strong><strong><em>Notable Book of 2007<br/></em></strong><strong><em><br/></em>&quot;Splendid, suspenseful, and irresistible . . . A contemporary love story that explores the mores of the urban 1960s--and 70s and 80s.&quot;--</strong><strong><em>The New York Times Book Review<br/><br/></em></strong>Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as &quot;Lily&quot; 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.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story of a bad girl and a good boy, in exactly the way you're used to thinking about them, and familiar from Flaubert, yes--Vargas-Llosa's own literary obsession and declared inspiration--but also plenty reminiscent of Somerset Maugham, and just about every love story orchestrated by Haruki Mura...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45589968">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Ricardo, at an early age, sees his life-long dream fulfilled: to live in Paris. But an encounter with a past love will change everything. The young girl, adventurer, pragmatic, wicked, calculating, and mischievous, will drag him out of his small world of ambitions. This is the story of the intimate love that occupies more than three decades of Ricardos life, and it is also a fascinating tale traveling through Europe, South America, and Japan.    Starring in the backdrop are Perus history from 1950 to 1987 and its swinging from democracy to dictatorship; Paris in the sixties and its great philosophers Sartre and Camus; the decade of the 70s in London, the birth of a new culture, drugs, music, hippies, freedom of love; Japans big dealer lords, and, finally, Spain halfway through the 80s.    Creating an admirable tension between comedy and tragedy, Mario Vargas Llosa plays with reality and fiction to release a story in which love presents itself as indefinable, owner of a thousand faces, just like the mischievous girl. Passion and distance, chance and destiny, pain and pleasure... Which is the true face of love?    Description in Spanish: Ricardo ve cumplido, a una edad muy temprana, el sueño que en su Lima natal alimentó desde que tenía uso de razón: vivir en París. Pero el rencuentro con un amor de adolescencia lo cambiará todo. La joven, inconformista, aventurera, pragmática e inquieta, lo arrastrará fuera del pequeño mundo de sus ambiciones.    Testigos de épocas convulsas y florecientes en ciudades como Londres, París, Tokio o Madrid, que aquí son mucho más que escenarios, ambos personajes verán sus vidas entrelazarse sin llegar a coincidir del todo. Sin embargo, esta danza de encuentros y desencuentros hará crecer la intensidad del relato página a página hasta propiciar una verdadera fusión del lector con el universo emocional de los protagonistas.    Creando una admirable tensión entre lo cómico y lo trágico, Mario Vargas Llosa juega con la realidad y la ficción para liberar una historia en la que el amor se nos muestra indefinible, dueño de mil caras, como la niña mala. Pasión y distancia, azar y destino, dolor y disfrute... ¿Cuál es el verdadero rostro del amor?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really loved this book. Embarrassingly for a Latin American literature major, I've never read Vargas Llosa before, but I enjoyed this so much I'm definitely going back for more. This novel is a modern-day reimagining of Madame Bovary -- the main character, Ricardo, a Peruvian, becomes obsessed wit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65566702">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the translation: &quot;The Bad Girl&quot; by Edith Grossman.<br/><br/>I love this book. It has the mystery, the suspense, the drama, all you can hope for from a great book. Llosa captivates me with his ability to affect me with the the sense and sensation that the heros of his story go thro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62189870">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p><strong><em>A </em></strong><strong>New York Times </strong><strong><em>Notable Book of 2007<br/></em></strong><strong><em><br/></em>&quot;Splendid, suspenseful, and irresistible . . . A contemporary love story that explores the mores of the urban 1960s--and 70s and 80s.&quot;--</strong><strong><em>The New York Times Book Review<br/><br/></em></strong>Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as &quot;Lily&quot; 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.</p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Travesuras de la Niña Mala]]>
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    <![CDATA[Ricardo, at an early age, sees his life-long dream fulfilled: to live in Paris. But an encounter with a past love will change everything. The young girl, adventurer, pragmatic, wicked, calculating, and mischievous, will drag him out of his small world of ambitions. This is the story of the intimate love that occupies more than three decades of Ricardos life, and it is also a fascinating tale traveling through Europe, South America, and Japan.    Starring in the backdrop are Perus history from 1950 to 1987 and its swinging from democracy to dictatorship; Paris in the sixties and its great philosophers Sartre and Camus; the decade of the 70s in London, the birth of a new culture, drugs, music, hippies, freedom of love; Japans big dealer lords, and, finally, Spain halfway through the 80s.    Creating an admirable tension between comedy and tragedy, Mario Vargas Llosa plays with reality and fiction to release a story in which love presents itself as indefinable, owner of a thousand faces, just like the mischievous girl. Passion and distance, chance and destiny, pain and pleasure... Which is the true face of love?    Description in Spanish: Ricardo ve cumplido, a una edad muy temprana, el sueño que en su Lima natal alimentó desde que tenía uso de razón: vivir en París. Pero el rencuentro con un amor de adolescencia lo cambiará todo. La joven, inconformista, aventurera, pragmática e inquieta, lo arrastrará fuera del pequeño mundo de sus ambiciones.    Testigos de épocas convulsas y florecientes en ciudades como Londres, París, Tokio o Madrid, que aquí son mucho más que escenarios, ambos personajes verán sus vidas entrelazarse sin llegar a coincidir del todo. Sin embargo, esta danza de encuentros y desencuentros hará crecer la intensidad del relato página a página hasta propiciar una verdadera fusión del lector con el universo emocional de los protagonistas.    Creando una admirable tensión entre lo cómico y lo trágico, Mario Vargas Llosa juega con la realidad y la ficción para liberar una historia en la que el amor se nos muestra indefinible, dueño de mil caras, como la niña mala. Pasión y distancia, azar y destino, dolor y disfrute... ¿Cuál es el verdadero rostro del amor?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book is part love story, part historical travel narrative.  I found the love story much less interesting than the historical travel narrative.  <br/><br/>Ricardo is in love with &quot;the bad girl&quot; in the story.  Their lives keep crossing for decades.  She is chasing wealth and excitement...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48257272">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Quizas no es la gran obra maestra de Vargas Llosa pero al ser su primera novela de amor (escrita a los 70 años) le da un cedito especial. La novela mantiene la atencion desde el primer momento. Se nota mucho la referencia temporal sobre su vida y los lugares donde el autor vivio (principalmente Par...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40259043">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I risk death in the hands of an angry mob of Peruvians for saying this, but: Vargas Llosa is overrated. His writing is not even close to the levels of complexity and beauty of García Márquez, the shock of an Horacio Quiroga, or the novelty of a Borges. His books are, however, very entertaining. &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75701579">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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