{"product_id":"9780312427764","title":"The Bad Girl : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Bad Girl\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Mario Vargas Llosa\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotable Book of 2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Splendid, suspenseful, and irresistible . . . A contemporary love story that explores the mores of the urban 1960s--and 70s and 80s.\"--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eRicardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as \"Lily\" 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Llosa writes an unabashed love story and makes no apologies for it. He seamlessly weaves it into the rich texture of the social atmosphere of the times. . . . Written with passion and energy that delivers.” —\u003ci\u003eRocky Mountain  News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Perversely charming . . . irresistibly entertaining.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A marvelous novel.” —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Spans decades and continents--and in the process, with a deftness that borders on literary sleight of hand, bridges the personal and the universal.” —\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A beautifully constructed, stinging tease of a novel.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner Nobel Prize in Literature (2010), Nobel Prize For Literature (2010)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780312427764\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40667639513294,"sku":"9780312427764","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780312427764","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}