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The bad girl / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: London : Faber and Faber, 2008.Description: 403 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780571234110
  • 0571234119
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 863
LOC classification:
  • PQ 8498.32 V297ba 2008
Awards:
  • Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 (Australia)
Summary: When the beautiful teenage Lily arrives in Lima in 1950, fifteen-year-old Ricardo falls instantly in love with her. She claims to be from Chile, but vanishes the moment it becomes clear that she has lied about both her name and her nationality. A decade later, now living in Paris, Ricardo falls in love with a woman named Comrade Arlette, who is incredibly similar to Lily but refuses to acknowledge that she is the same person. For his whole life, Ricardo seems doomed to keep running into 'Lily', and to keep falling in love with her. Will he ever discover who she really is?
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PQ 8498.32 V297ba 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000122506

This translation originally published: 2007.

When the beautiful teenage Lily arrives in Lima in 1950, fifteen-year-old Ricardo falls instantly in love with her. She claims to be from Chile, but vanishes the moment it becomes clear that she has lied about both her name and her nationality. A decade later, now living in Paris, Ricardo falls in love with a woman named Comrade Arlette, who is incredibly similar to Lily but refuses to acknowledge that she is the same person. For his whole life, Ricardo seems doomed to keep running into 'Lily', and to keep falling in love with her. Will he ever discover who she really is?

Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 (Australia)

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