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Mario Vargas Llosa – Death in the Andes

Mario Vargas Llosa's latest novel is a thrilling mix of modern politics and ancient myth

Were the missing road crew abducted and is lightning really a lizard of the sky? – Death in the Andes, the newly-translated novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, is a thrilling mixture of contemporary Peruvian politics and ancient myths. Plus, Absolute Power by David Baldacci; the first novel by British-Nigerian writer Diran Adebayo, Some Kind of Black; I May Be Gone Sometime: Ice and the English Imagination by Francis Spufford.

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29 minutes

Ö÷²¥´óÐã World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project