At a very young age, Ricardo sees the dream he has secretly cherished in Lima since he can remember come true: to live in Paris. But meeting a teenage crush will change everything.
The girl, unconventional, adventurous, realistic, and restless, will pull him out of his little world of ambitions. Witnesses to turbulent times in cities like London, Paris, Tokyo, or Madrid, which here do not simply serve as backdrops, the two protagonists will see their lives intertwine without perfectly aligning.
However, this dance of meetings and separations increases the intensity of the narrative page by page until the reader becomes one with the emotional world of the protagonists. Creating a remarkable tension between the comic and the tragic, Mario Vargas Llosa writes a story in which love proves to be undefined, fluid, with a thousand faces, much like his heroine, the tomboy. Passion and distance, fortune and destiny, pain and pleasure... What truly is the true face of love?
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
