false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170434731m/53926.jpg 53926 22 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? 2674629 30 5 1994 Travesuras de la Niña Mala total:839|5:11|4:11|3:12|2:3|1:1| 839 3122 1342 163 5 1 false false Wed Nov 05 08:15:52 -0800 2008 Tue Sep 16 12:37:55 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 05 08:15:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sat Apr 12 17:04:37 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 17:05:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 03 10:55:37 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 03 11:05:59 -0800 2008
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...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:52:50 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:52:50 -0800 2009 No one can quite understand why Mario Vargas Llosa hasn't yet won the Nobel Prize in Literature. As The Bad Girl 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 ...

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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...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 11:26:13 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 09:53:52 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Aug 22 09:52:42 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 19:51:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri May 08 15:57:03 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 16:06:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 16:09:18 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 16:15:59 -0800 2009
Ricardo is in love with "the bad girl" in the story. Their lives keep crossing for decades. She is chasing wealth and excitement...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 16:39:13 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 17:16:12 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 15:26:25 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 13:14:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 15:57:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 16:06:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 11:44:40 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 20:31:46 -0700 2009
"we could never live in our countries again, for he in Turkey and I in Peru would surely feel more foreign than we did in France, where we also felt like outsiders. And we were both very conscious that we would never be integrated into the country wher...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 20:19:45 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 20:27:11 -0800 2009
It has been a long time since a book moved me so much as Vargas Llosa's Bad Girl. It stole my nights, my mornings, and my afternoons. Gave me ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=53926