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Travesuras de la niña mala (The Bad Girl: A Novel)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 863.7
EAN: 9789707704664
ISBN: 9707704667
Label: Alfaguara
Manufacturer: Alfaguara
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 376
Publication Date: May 30, 2006
Publisher: Alfaguara
Studio: Alfaguara
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Editorial Review:
Ricardo, at an early age, sees his life-long dream fulfilled: to live in Paris. But an encounter with a past love will change everything. The young girl, adventurer, pragmatic, wicked, calculating, and mischievous, will drag him out of his small world of ambitions. This is the story of the intimate love that occupies more than three decades of Ricardo s life, and it is also a fascinating tale traveling through Europe, South America, and Japan. Starring in the backdrop are Peru s history from 1950 to 1987 and its swinging from democracy to dictatorship; Paris in the sixties and its great philosophers Sartre and Camus; the decade of the 70s in London, the birth of a new culture, drugs, music, hippies, freedom of love; Japan s big dealer lords, and, finally, Spain halfway through the 80s. Creating an admirable tension between comedy and tragedy, Mario Vargas Llosa plays with reality and fiction to release a story in which love presents itself as indefinable, owner of a thousand faces, just like the mischievous girl. Passion and distance, chance and destiny, pain and pleasure... Which is the true face of love? Description in Spanish: Ricardo ve cumplido, a una edad muy temprana, el sue que en su Lima natal aliment desde que ten uso de raz : vivir en Par . Pero el rencuentro con un amor de adolescencia lo cambiar todo. La joven, inconformista, aventurera, pragm ica e inquieta, lo arrastrar fuera del peque mundo de sus ambiciones. Testigos de ocas convulsas y florecientes en ciudades como Londres, Par , Tokio o Madrid, que aqu son mucho m que escenarios, ambos personajes ver sus vidas entrelazarse sin llegar a coincidir del todo. Sin embargo, esta danza de encuentros y desencuentros har crecer la intensidad del relato p ina a p ina hasta propiciar una verdadera fusi del lector con el universo emocional de los protagonistas. Creando una admirable tensi entre lo c ico y lo tr ico, Mario Vargas Llosa juega con la realidad y la ficci para liberar una historia en la que el amor se nos muestra indefinible, due de mil caras, como la ni mala. Pasi y distancia, azar y destino, dolor y disfrute... Cu es el verdadero rostro del amor?
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Muy entretenido
Otra obra de arte de Vargas LLosa. El libro es muy entretenido y la lectura es muy rápida.
Rating: - Captivating novel
As a peruvian, I truly appreciated the narrative and the words used, it brought me back to the time I lived in Lima. I was actually hoping that the book would have continue until 1990. Llosa described the political atmosphere in Peru during the decades, and given the fact that he ran for president in 1990 I think it would have been great to read about that, but I can understand why he did not.
One reviewer mentioned how come women do not feel offended about this novel. Here is my response ... Read More
Rating:  - La Belle Dame sans Merci
Where are the women who are offended by this book? The Bad Girl (why "girl," not "woman"?)is a very bad girl. In Japan, for example, she gets involved with a Japanese gangster, a sinister character, a "boss in the Japanese mafia." And yet, in the long misogynistic tradition of Western and South-American literature, the weak-kneed hero longs for her with all the frail force of his corrupt soul: "It was clear, the bad girl's indescribable audacity would never cease to amaze me." Why? From the beginning ... Read More
Rating: - travesuras de una niña mala
The book was missing about 10 pages. this is unacceptable.Pages 73 to 88 were missing. Would like a new book with all the pages.
Rating: - Just a masterpiece
I got this book as it was recommended by a person I love a lot. She told me that this will be a good reading and she was absolutely right. The way how Mario Vargas Llosa describes every single place, situation and feelig is just something that gets you into the history pretty quickly. It was really hard to stop reading it since i started it. That is why I finished it just in 2 nights. Mischiefs of the Bad Girl was for sure a great novel and was worth the time for sure. I highly recommend it...
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