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...The Farm , by Héctor Abad, translated by Anne McLean, World Editions, RRP£12.99/ Archipelago, RRP$20 When his mother’s death brings him back to the family farm in Colombia, Antonio Angel must confront the...
...takes authorial chutzpah to write about a 17th-century tennis match between the Italian painter Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo, with historical asides ranging from the decapitation of Anne...
...Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was, by Sjón, translated by Victoria Cribb, Sceptre, RRP£14.99 Set in 1918, as the Spanish flu epidemic turns Reykjavík into a ghost town, the latest novel by this Icelandic...
...Strange Shores , by Arnaldur Indridason, translated by Victoria Cribb, Harvill Secker, RRP£14.99 The king of Icelandic crime fiction is not resting on his laurels, as the valedictory Strange Shores proves...
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