| Author: | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| Title Orig: | Travesuras de la niña mala |
| Orig Lang Code: | es |
| Publisher: | Alfaguara |
| English Pub Date: | October 15, 2007 |
| Translator: | Edith Grossman |
The Bad Girl (Spanish:Travesuras de la niña mala,) is a 2006 novel by Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, who won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. An English-language edition translated by Edith Grossman was published the following year.[1] [2] [3]
Journalist Kathryn Harrison approvingly argues that the book is a rewrite (rather than simply a recycling) of the French realist Gustave Flaubert's classic novel Madame Bovary (1856). In Vargas Llosa's version, the plot relates the decades-long obsession of its narrator, a Peruvian expatriate, with a woman with whom he first fell in love when they were both teenagers.