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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....
...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 Conrad...
...When Conrad Egusa, a 25-year-old entrepreneur from New York, arrived in Medellín early in 2012, he knew “pretty much straight away” that he had found what he was looking for....
...Conrad have produced a brand new Asterix adventure that’s all but indistinguishable from the originals....
...“Asia is the new motor of the world economy,” President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia says. It is a positive change in a continent long overshadowed by the US....
...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...
...Peter Conrad teaches English at Oxford University. His latest book, ‘Islands: A Trip Through Space and Time’ (Thames & Hudson, £14.95), was published earlier this year....
...Eliot, Conrad Aiken and Wallace Stevens, he is now little read and little remembered. The Last Puritan has been out of print for many years....
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