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...Identittiby Mithu Sanyal, translated by Alta L Price, V&Q Books £12.99 Questions about race, culture and belonging abound in this entertaining debut by German journalist and academic Mithu Sanyal....
...But by the time it was completed in 1819, the then monarch, Ferdinand VII, decided that the royal art collection (shaped by his predecessors Charles V and Philip II) should be exhibited instead....
...The Bureau of Past Managementby Iris Hanika, translated by Abigail Wender, V&Q Books £12.99 Hans Frambach works at the Berlin bureau that gives the novel its title, whose mission is to help the country...
...John V Baldwin Cernobbio, Italy...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
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...Garcia de la Concha, director of the RAE, recalls explaining to García Márquez what the suggested reforms (dropping accents, ditching the silent h, eradicating the differentiated use of g and j, and b and v)...
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...He goes on to recall an adage from the time of Emperor Charles V about Latin being the language to speak to God, and Hungarian being the language to speak to the devil....
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