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...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....
...32 It was discovered in November that this year’s Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa agreed to change sections of a 1963 novel to satisfy the censors of which dictatorship?...
...Deborah Voigt will portray the glamorous heroine, with Diana Damrau, current coloratura in excelsis, as the sorceress Aithra and Torsten Kerl venturing the high-flying lines of Menelaus....
...Most worrisome manifestation: Deborah Voigt looking svelte and sounding strained as Sieglinde. How’s-that-again? award: To Mirella Freni for verbal meandering....
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