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...Harsh Times by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Adrian Nathan West, Faber & Faber £20/Farrar, Straus and Giroux £28, 304 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Last year, the husband-and-wife team corralled a world-class roster of their peers — the list includes Colm Tóibín, Mario Vargas Llosa and Hari Kunzru — to bear witness to the occupation as guests of Breaking...
...Vargas Llosa follows Casement from Liverpool and Dublin to the Congo and Peru – and finally London, where his life ended in Pentonville jail....
...Their slightly dysfunctional son is acted by director Nathan Silver, whose mother gamely plays the film mother as a sort of older Ruby Wax....
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