Book description
Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a
teenager known as 'Lily' in Lima in 1950, where she claims to be from
Chile but vanishes the moment her claim is exposed as fiction. He
loves her next in Paris as 'Comrade Arlette', an activist en route to
Cuba, an icy, remote lover who denies knowing anything about the Lily
of years gone by. Whoever the bad girl turns up as and however poorly
she treats him, Ricardo is doomed to worship her. Gifted liar and
irresistible, maddening muse - does Ricardo ever know who she really is?
With novels including The War of the End of the World, Aunt
Julia and the Scriptwriter, The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto and The
Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargas Llosa has established an international
reputation as one of the Latin America's most important authors.
