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...In need of escapism, I took the advice of Nilanjana Roy, our new columnist, and turned to Reputations (Bloomsbury), by the Colombian Juan Gabriel Vásquez....
...The All Saints’ Day Lovers, by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated by Anne McLean, Bloomsbury, RRP£16.99 The latest offering by Colombia’s Impac Prize-winning author is a collection of short stories mostly...
...The Secret History of Costaguana (2007), set during the construction of the Panama Canal, is written with tongue firmly in cheek, with a protagonist who claims to have been the unacknowledged source for Joseph...
...The Secret History of Costaguana, by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated by Anne McLean, Bloomsbury RRP£16.99 A delicious subversion of a literary classic, in which Joseph Conrad steals the plot for his book...
...There is also a tussle over five works by Joseph Beuys that the museum says cannot be removed because they are site-specific. Helga Lauffs is selling some 400 works....
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