{"product_id":"the-bad-girl-by-mario-vargas-llosa-9780312427764","title":"The Bad Girl","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Notable Book of 2007\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa comes \u003cem\u003eThe Bad Girl\u003c\/em\u003e, a \"...splendid, suspenseful, and irresistible novel... A contemporary love story that explores the mores of the urban 1960s–and 70s and 80s.\" – \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRicardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl.\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47648018268396,"sku":"9780312427764","price":51.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780312427764-the-bad-girl.jpg?v=1779247679","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-bad-girl-by-mario-vargas-llosa-9780312427764","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}