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...The Living and the Rest by José Eduardo Agualusa, translated by Daniel Hahn (MacLehose) A group of writers attending a literary festival on the Island of Mozambique find themselves stranded when a cyclone...
...Since the publication of Crooked Plow, Vieira Junior has been hailed as an heir to a tradition of Brazilian storytellers from the north-east including Jorge Amado, Graciliano Ramos, José Lins do Rego and...
...These included respected former centre-left presidential candidate Alejandro Gaviria, as well as former finance ministers José Antonio Ocampo and Rudolf Hommes....
...Ofelia Flores Moreno succeeded in finding the body of her husband, José Candelario Espinoza Ochoa, a month after he disappeared in 2017, but not thanks to the police....
...The Society of Reluctant Dreamers , by José Eduardo Agualusa, translated by Daniel Hahn, Harvill Secker, RRP£14.99 When Daniel Benchimol finds a camera containing photos of the woman he has been seeing...
..., José Ignacio has been variously described as a South American Saint-Tropez and the Hamptons for the Buenos Aires set....
...A General Theory of Oblivion, by José Eduardo Agualusa, translated by Daniel Hahn, Harvill Secker, RRP£14.99/Archipelago, RRP$18 On the eve of Angola’s independence from Portugal in 1975, the agoraphobic...
...José Eduardo Agualusa is the author of 13 novels and various short-story collections....
...Basque: Spanish Recipes from San Sebastián and Beyond, by José Pizarro, Hardie Grant Books, RRP£25/$39.95 This is Pizarro’s third book in which he finally gets to explore his own roots in Basque cooking...
...Neville Hawcock Fiction in translation A General Theory of Oblivion, by José Eduardo Agualusa, translated by Daniel Hahn, Harvill Secker, RRP£14.99/Archipelago, RRP$18 On the eve of Angola’s independence...
...In Los Angeles, a borrower named Jose Flores applies for a mortgage but unfortunately a credit check reveals he is dead....
...Cain, by José Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Harvill Secker, RRP£12.99, 160 pages “God, most definitely, does not exist,” novelist José Saramago wrote in one of his notebooks in 1994....
...José Espasa, who had worked demolishing the old city walls, would go on to print Spain’s first encyclopedia....
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...Outside Pastéis de Belém one of the city’s calceteiros, described by the writer José Cardoso Pires as part stonemasons, part calligraphers, is busy repairing a sidewalk design....
...Small Memories By José SaramagoTranslated by Margaret Jull Costa Harvill Secker £12.99, 199 pages FT Bookshop price: £10.39 José Saramago, the Portuguese novelist and Nobel laureate, is no stranger to...
...Three years ago, just after his 23rd birthday, José Gerald Quintana stood in front of a Mexican judge and was told he was going to go to prison for 10 years, with no chance of early release....
...Three years ago, just after his 23rd birthday, José Gerald Quintana stood in front of a Mexican judge and received the news that he was going to go to prison for 10 years with no reduction of sentence....
...Blank Gaze By Jose Luis PeixotoTranslated by Richard Zenith Bloomsbury £15.99 256 pages FT bookshop price: £12.79 This first novel from a young Portuguese author is as remarkable for its subtle language...
...SEEING by Jose Saramago translated by Margaret Jull Costa Harvill Secker £11.99, 308 pages We take the benefits of electoral democracy for granted....
...Both rely on unearthing, selecting and ordering facts - a point made by Nobel laureate Jose Saramago when he wondered, at a lecture delivered in Oslo, “if there is too much fiction in history and…whether...
...FICTION Compiled by Angel Gurria-Quintana Divisadero By Michael Ondaatje Bloomsbury £17.99, 288 pages FT bookshop price: £14.39 A new novel by the author of The English Patient is always worth the wait...
...A moment later, a passing driver yelled ‘Hey, Jose Costa!’. There, within a few seconds, was the arc of my entire career.”...
...There too was Angolan novelist Jose Eduardo Agualusa, considered one of Africa’s finest, bumping into French cult author Pierre Michon....
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