The mischievous girl’s devilries - Mario Vargas Llosa

The novel that the late translator Saleh Alamani transferred into Arabic revolves around the kind boy and the mischievous girl. The kind boy is Ricardo who works as a translator at the United Nations, and the mischievous girl is named as her characters are countless. Ricardo knew the mischievous girl in the city of Lima, but after a short period she disappeared completely, only to reappear after ten years in Paris where she became involved in politics, then their meetings repeated due to the work of the boy who travels a lot, and they meet in multiple countries, France, Spain, and Britain. The lives of the two characters progress from adolescence to old age, and they accompany each other on a forty-year journey, with fate insisting on bringing them together again, each time in a different place, maintaining an extraordinary relationship that combines love and madness of desires, and against the backdrop of that relationship and its details, her madness and his, all the events of the twentieth century pass in the background. Number of pages: 392 Publisher: Dar Al-Jamal Author: Mario Vargas Llosa