The Bad Girl

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date :2008-10-28 Pages: 309 Publisher: China University of Science and Technology Press From Publishers Weekly Veteran Peruvian novelist Vargas Llosas appealing. nostalgic latest opens in the summer of 1950. as Ricardo Slim Somocurcio. a rambunctious teen in the affluent Miraflores section of Lima. meets 14-year-old nymph Lily. With her younger sister. Lily is masquerading as a wealthy. liberated Chilean girl to disguise her slum origins. She is soon exposed by a jealous schoolmate and disappears. but Ricardo is smitten. There are dashes of Vertigo and Last Year at Marienbad in what follows. As an adult. Ricardos work as a translator for UNESCO takes him over the decades everywhere from late 50s Paris to the Beatless London to gangland Tokyo. Everywhere he goes. his bad girl shows up in dramatically different disguises. denying she was his chi...