Ricardo is fulfilled at a very early age, sleep in his native Lima fed since I can remember: live in Paris. But an encounter with a teenage love change everything. The girl, adventurer, pragmatic and uneasy, drag it outside the small world of ambitions. Witnesses convulsive times and flourishing in cities like London, Paris, Tokyo and Madrid, here are more than scenarios, both characters see their lives intertwine without ever quite coinciding. However, this dance of encounters and will raise the intensity of the story from page to page to promote a true fusion of the reader with the emotional universe of the protagonists. This book tells the passionate love of a man, Ricardo Somocurcio, by a wicked and scheming woman seeks only achieve their ambitions. But this is not only the novel of intimate passion that spans more than three decades of Ricardo's life is also the chronicle of a fascinating time in two continents: Europe and South America. As background we look at the history of Peru from 1950 to 1987, with its swings between democracy and dictatorship. And simultaneously, the Paris of the sixties with great thinkers of the time (Sartre, Camus), the fascinating London in the seventies with the emergence of hippie culture, drugs, pop music and free love Japan of major traffickers, and finally Spain in the mid-eighties. Creating 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, as the bad girl. Passion and distance, chance and destiny, pain and pleasure ... What is the true face of love? ................................................ .................... Is it possible to love someone forever lying, not to be true, it only wants your interest? The latest novel by Mario Vargas Llosa presents a case of adolescent infatuation that has continued over the years despite the repeated betrayal, in a mixture of happiness and misery of others to reason and good sense. Ricardo Somocurcio goes from short to long trousers in the summer of 50. Alberta care for her aunt after the death of his parents, falls madly in love with Lily, a Chilean girl who has gone without knowing how the Miraflores district of Lima. She gives him long, as the mystery grows: nobody knows his parents and where you live does not square with his aristocratic airs. At last he discovers that Lily is not Chile, but Peru: everything has been a simulation to be important. Ricardo's out of sight, but can not forget. Since then, Ricardo's life is marked by the appearance and disappearance of the "girl bad. "First will be in Paris: there is found among a group of young Latin Americans who are traveling to Cuba for training scholarships in the revolutionary ranks. It is now called Arlette and Richard quickly realizes that his activism is a tall tale an excuse to leave Peru and see the world. While Ricardo begins to make a living as a translator for UNESCO in Cuba there is news that Arlette has been mistress of one of the leaders of the Cuban Revolution. But when finds her again in Paris has become Madame Arnoux, wife of a French diplomat. At each meeting, Richard lives with her adventures in secret and offers again and again marriage. But the "bad girl" is clear: "I just stay forever with a man who was very, very rich and powerful", while Ricardo blames lack of ambition. It is the "good kid" can only be taken by a friend. diplomat She will soon leave taking all their money and disappear from the view of Richard until, by chance, it is found again in England, turned into a new bride (this time posing as Mexican) Mr. Richardson , a sixties love of horses. Become sporadic meetings of the two Peruvians, but Ricardo feels "a fool for continuing to repeat a mad love of an adventurer" of an unscrupulous woman, falls back into their networks without remedy. When he discovers her previous marriage to the French diplomat, the "bad girl" disappears again without a trace. Ricardo has been a translator and interpreter, through a colleague, finds his former love in Japan, caught in the seedy world of Mr. Fukuda, a kind of bully who is engaged in the smuggling of aphrodisiacs. She has become his slave and Ricardo used to satisfy the hot Japanese services. When Richard discovers the deception, he left Japan, ready to cut to that love always abject. When it reappears again, Richard has compassion their physical and mental unfortunate and swallows a history of violations and imprisonment that is false. Reluctantly, still in love, and insists all his savings to pay for the psychiatric treatment that returned to normal. The story seems to end well when they end up marrying, but Vargas Llosa still holds some surprises until the final dramatic. Several secondary characters were accompanied with singular force in the life of Ricardo and the world during the second half of the twentieth century revolutionary idealists, hippies "smart" gifted performers aware of the emptiness of his office, in areas of traumatized children war shamans who decide where is to build a breakwater for the sea to accept it. Simultaneously draws a strong picture of the European social changes and political upheavals of Peru, marked by military coups and bloody terrorism. Many of Vargas Llosa's life experiences are turning to the novel: their hardships in Paris, his work as a translator, his collaboration with the Cuban regime, their encounters and conflicts with his native country. The reader is carried away by the story fast, tough and tender at the time, exacerbated this love story, which forms a sharp image of the paths of ambition and indifference of the contradictions that have marked whole generations in recent decades. 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, as the bad girl. Passion and distance, chance and destiny, pain and pleasure, what is the true face of love? Is it possible to love someone forever lying, not to be true, it only wants your interest?
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