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The Bad Girl : A Novel
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The Bad Girl : A Novel Paperback - 2008

by Vargas Llosa, Mario

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Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager in Lima in 1950, and next in Paris, where she appears as the enchanting Comrade Arlette. In Llosa's beguiling novel, the strange bedfellows of good and bad turn out not to be what they appear.

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  • Title The Bad Girl : A Novel
  • Author Vargas Llosa, Mario
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Picador, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2008-10-28
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2265278-6
  • ISBN 9780312427764 / 031242776X
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.8 in (20.57 x 13.97 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Travelers, Psychological fiction

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Citations

  • New York Times Book Review, 11/09/2008, Page 52

About the author

Mario Vargas Llosa is Peru's foremost author and the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1994 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor, and in 1995 he won the Jerusalem Prize. His many distinguished works include The Storyteller, The Feast of the Goat, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Death in the Andes, In Praise of the Stepmother, The Bad Girl, Conversation in the Cathedral, The Way to Paradise, and The War of the End of the World. He lives in London.