{"product_id":"the-bad-girl-9780312427764","title":"The Bad Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNotable Book of 2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa comes \u003ci\u003eThe Bad Girl, \u003c\/i\u003e a \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"...splendid, suspenseful, and irresistible [novel]. . . 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 \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMario Vargas Llosa \u003c\/b\u003eis Peru's foremost author and the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1994 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor, and in 1995 he won the Jerusalem Prize. His many distinguished works include \u003ci\u003eThe Storyteller\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFeast of the Goat\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAunt Julia and the Scriptwriter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDeath in the Andes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn Praise of the Stepmother\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Bad Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConversation in the Cathedral\u003c\/i\u003e, The \u003ci\u003eWay to Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe War of the End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in London.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50707233734930,"sku":"9780312427764","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_110443d2-c276-4de5-9a07-d2554d4ad2ba.jpg?v=1734494901","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-bad-girl-9780312427764","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}