Blogs in January 2018

Black Sugar 13th January 2018

Miguel Bonnefoy’s colourful tale of a family’s changing fortunes is also the fascinating story of Venezuela’s development over the course of the 20th century. On the edge of the Latin American rainforest, the Oteros family farm sugar cane in...

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Octavio’s Journey 24th October 2017

Compact but kaleidoscopic fable of Venezuela from a stunning new voice in the magical realism tradition. “His body might have been hewn from a tree trunk; his heart would last for a hundred years. And, like a tree, he...

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