The Bad Girl
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 "Splendid, suspenseful, and irresistible . . . A contemporary love story that explores the mores of the urban 1960s--and 70s and 80s."--The New York Times Book Review Ricardo 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.
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Really not sure what to make of this book, I found it gripping and read it within a couple of days but at the same time found it quite disturbing at times and felt that maybe I was missing a few things I should have picked up on. An interesting portrayal of a woman, however.
I don't like it at all, It's the first book of MVLL that I've read and soon I hope to read another one just to be fair about my opinion, not sure which one I'll choose. I pick this one as a suggestion from a friend when I told him I really like Georges Bataille, but I think it's just terrible to compare them. I found the characters of the book to be completely stereotyped and they just don't seem natural, it seems that they're forced to play a role that doesn't belongs to them.
