The mischievous child's tricks

We find the evil spirits of the mischievous girl in every list that includes unforgettable translated novels. With an elegant new edition published by Al-Jamal Publications and a beautiful translation by the late Saleh Almani, we follow the narrative of the Peruvian genius, Mario Vargas Llosa, for a legendary love story unlike any other. It is not a romantic novel in the traditional sense of the word, but rather a novel about love itself. Summary of the novel "The Evil Spirits of the Mischievous Girl" The novel 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, whose names are countless, as are her characters. Ricardo met the mischievous girl in Lima, but she disappeared completely after a short time, only to reappear ten years later in Paris, where she became involved in politics. Their meetings repeat due to the boy's work, as he travels frequently, and they meet in multiple countries—France, Spain, and Britain. Throughout the pages of "The Evil Spirits of the Mischievous Girl," the lives of the two characters progress from adolescence to old age, accompanying each other over a forty-year journey. Fate insists on bringing them together again, each time in a different place, maintaining an extraordinary relationship that combines love and madness of desires. Behind this relationship, and through the details of her madness and his, all the events of the twentieth century unfold in the background. They said about the novel "The Evil Spirits of the Mischievous Girl" The Iraqi novelist the late Saad Mahmoud Raheem said: "It is a novel about love first and foremost. The fierce, overwhelming, blind love that takes over the heart and mind, feeling and unconsciousness, for forty years, like a dormant germ in the blood and marrow, like a curse... Love for one woman alone, as in the case of Florentino Ariza in Gabriel García Márquez's novel 'Love in the Time of Cholera,' who waits half a century for his beloved, who has shunned him and married a doctor. He waits all this time to renew his vow of loyalty and love... When? When he reaches seventy-five. He has relations with hundreds of women during these years, with Verena Datha in his sights, whom he wishes her husband would die, so he can repeat the cycle and declare his old love." About Mario Vargas Llosa Mario Vargas Llosa, a novelist born in Peru in 1936, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, is considered one of the greatest Latin American writers. He has numerous works including "The Feast of the Toad," "In Praise of the Aunt," and "The End of the World War." Quotes from "The Evil Spirits of the Mischievous Girl" You are the meanest person I have ever known, you mischievous girl. You are a mutation of selfishness and lack of sensibility. Capable of stabbing me with coldness better than those who treat you well. If one day you think of writing our love story, you must not make me look too bad.