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f1de3d3 Well, at heart I knew she'd never be a normal woman. And I didn't want her to be one, because what I loved in her were the indomitable and unpredictable aspects of her personality romance the-bad-girl translated Mario Vargas Llosa
2e6c9fc Cheap, sentimental things the-bad-girl translated mario-vargas-llosa Edith Grossman
2f79067 I told myself that in the country of my birth, from which I was disengaged in an increasingly irreversible way, there undoubtedly were many men and women like him, basically decent people who had dreamed all their lives of the economic, social, cultural, and political progress that would transform Peru into a modern, prosperous, democratic society with opportunities open to all, only to find themselves repeatedly frustrated, and, like Uncle Ataulfo, had reached old age - the very brink of death - bewildered, asking themselves why we were moving backward instead of advancing and were worse off now with more discrimination, inequality, violence, and insecurity than when they were starting out the-bad-girl translated mario-vargas-llosa Edith Grossman
5c7d336 Her fiercest sincerities were translated by the male ego, on arrival, into daffy flirtation. (p. 24) male-ego translated Jonathan Lethem