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...Hard Like Waterby Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas, Chatto & Windus £16.99/Grove Atlantic $27 At the height of China’s Cultural Revolution, Gao Aijun, a soldier in the People’s Liberation Army, returns...
...The Explosion Chronicles , by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas, Chatto & Windus, RRP£14.99/Grove Press, RRP$26 In this absurdist satire of China’s rapid urbanisation, the ancient village of Explosion...
...It said Ángel Zerpa, Jesús Rojas and Zuleima González were seized between July 24 and 28 in the run-up to last Sunday’s highly contentious election for candidates to Mr Maduro’s new all-powerful constituent...
...Yet the photographer, Miguel Angel Rojas, had captured the scene — which he entitled “The Tempest” — as a moment of existential poetry. Now 69, Rojas is considered one of Colombia’s modern masters....
...The Four Books, by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas, Chatto & Windus, RRP£16.99/Grove Press, RRP$27 Banned in mainland China, Yan’s novel is set in a “re-education camp” in northern China between...
...The setting is the faded Faenza theatre in Bogotá more than 30 years ago, as seen by the Colombian artist Miguel Angel Rojas....
...Standing next to Mr Ávila, tradesman Luis Rojas said he had always voted for the socialists but this time cast a ballot for the opposition....
...Art world professionals have been astounded by generations of artists who had worked in relative isolation, including Débora Arango (b1907), Beatriz González (b1938), Miguel Ángel Rojas (b1946), Oscar Muñoz...
...But fragrance specialist Roja Dove says: “A whisper of cacao can be much more alluring than the sugary whack in the face you get from chocolate.”...
...Bogotá artist Miguel Ángel Rojas insists that as well as the coincidence of money and peace, the interest in Colombian contemporary art depends, above all, on its high standard....
...It still has a long way to go to rival Mugler’s own Angel, which continues to be one of the five bestselling fragrances in the world 21 years after launch....
...The choreographic duo Rojas & Rodríguez have adorned rudimentary ballet steps with serpentine flamenco wrists, torero lunges and flamenco chugs. Their ballet ignorance limits them to these clichés....
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...After all, La Roja lost their first match but stuck to the task, and won in the end in an uncompromisingly physical final....
...The opening Dualia, by Carlos Rodriguez and Angel Rojas, invoking the paintings of that genius of light Joaquin Sorolla, was burdened with a glutinous score of “Spanish” predictabilities, and offered ineffectual...
...The Nuevo Ballet Español, whose Cambio de Tercio (a bull-fighting term that need not delay us) opened the festival, frames the activities of Angel Rojas and Carlos Rodriguez, whom we have admired before....
...“Without Poiret, Chanel and Jean Patou might not have followed on,” observes the scent expert Roja Dove, founder of Harrods’ Haute Parfumerie....
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