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 The Bad Girl - Mario Vargas Llosa
Newest Review: ... without ever truly exciting me as a reader. As the story develops and Ricardo meets Lily as a guerilla fighter, as the wife ... more  ... of a diplomat, a smuggler, an invalid, it's impossible to ever fully empathise with the man, as he's so incredibly wet behind the ears. On the other hand, as Ricardo feels himself drifting ever further from his Latin American roots, the theme of globalisation in the late twentieth century is compelling. How do you maintain a national identity when you speak several languages and have no ambition but to live out your days in Paris?
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The Bad Girl - Mario Vargas Llosa: Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere... (1067 words)
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The Bad Girl, by Mario Vargas Llosa and translated by Edith Grossman, is a tale of apparently unrequited love that spans four decades and three continents. Ricardo is a Peruvian translator who spends most of the book living in Paris. As the years roll by, the girl he fell in love with at the age of thirteen flits in and out of his life. Ricardo spends his life devoted to 'Lily', and seems doomed to a lifetime of having his spirits crushed every time she vanishes to find another wealthy powerful man. This bleak tale unfolds against the backdrop of Peruvian revolution, the Swinging Sixties, the emergence of AIDS and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ricardo is ... Read the complete review
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