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...Growing up under the influence of shows like The Hills and brands such as Victoria’s Secret with its preternaturally bronzed angels, tanned skin was always the aspiration....
...Angel Chora, owner of a printing shop in Iztapalapa, said his sales were already down 70 per cent....
...Ditto Joanna Vargas, the amazing facialist. She used to come out from New York and book a suite at Sunset Tower for a week every six weeks or so....
...Is this the Gothic sister of Walter Benjamin’s doomed angel of history, her wings trapped in the storm of our so-called progress?...
...Admiral Ángel Enrique Sarmiento, the naval ministry undersecretary, later apologised for the confusion....
...The Neighbourhood, by Mario Vargas Llosa, Faber, RRP£18.99/FSG, RRP$26 (February) A political thriller set in the Fujimori years by Peru’s Nobel Prize-winner....
...Is he devil or angel? Or is Rigoberto’s son making the whole thing up? In another interesting scene, Don Rigoberto and his wife whisper erotic stories in bed....
...July 2013: Arrest of Zetas cartel chief Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, known as “Z-40”....
...The Dream of the Celt, by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Edith Grossman, Faber, RRP£18.99/ Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$27, 404 pages When Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature...
...Vargas Llosa follows Casement from Liverpool and Dublin to the Congo and Peru – and finally London, where his life ended in Pentonville jail....
...In the 1960s, this link led to the emergence of the Latin American “boom” generation that included Colombia’s Gabriel García Márquez and Peru’s Mario Vargas Llosa, who spent many years in Barcelona....
...Vargas Llosa’s interest in politics was never purely literary....
...This was essential to the success of the generation of Latin American writers known as El Boom, which includes Mario Vargas Llosa and Carlos Fuentes....
...The Bad Girl By Mario Vargas LlosaTranslated by Edith Grossman Faber £17.99, 288 pages A tale of romantic obsession by one of Latin America’s finest storytellers is the story of hapless Ricardo Somocurcio...
...The “bad girl” in this latest novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, the veteran Peruvian novelist, certainly gets around a lot....
...remains the most conspicuous figure to emerge from the Latin American fiction “boom” of the 1960s and 1970s that also brought international fame to authors such as Mexico’s Carlos Fuentes, Peru’s Mario Vargas...
...His book covers - including works by Harold Pinter, Kazuo Ishiguro and Mario Vargas Llosa - contrasted profoundly with the shallow, colourful works of his emerging post-modern contemporaries....
...Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Feast of the Goat, a fictionalised portrait of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, came second....
...At Imagems Bove, a small factory in the Aclimação district of the city, a dozen workers are hard at work completing an order of plaster statues for a full Christmas crib and 80 accompanying angels, destined...
...As a translator he is responsible for bringing Latin American authors such as Mario Vargas Llosa and Julio Cortazar to a wider public’s attention....
...factories and power plants rising from the fields . . . he saw skies of flame, the wings of avenging angels, and total destruction”....
...The second, O Clube dos Anjos (The Club of Angels), was for a series on the seven deadly sins which included a novel on lust by Ribeiro....
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