JULY BOOK
It's back to fiction for July as we have selected The Bad Girl by Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa (link). The second Tuesday of the month falls on July 9, so join the garrulous gang at Zawa's on Commercial Drive (link) at our usual start time of 7pm, probably outside on the patio. Everyone welcome.
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.
