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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 10/28/2008
ISBN: 9780312427764
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.80d
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 11/09/2008 pg. 52
