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Narrative non-fiction. Published in Spanish in 2017 by Ediciones Península (Barcelona). 306 pages. In Children of the Nile, the prizewinning Spanish journalist Xavier Aldekoa sets off on a journey to trace the Nile from its source at Lake Victoria all the way to the Mediterranean. However, this is not some modern boys’ own adventure following in more »

“One thing led to another, and that was only the beginning. I am referring to the head resting on the plate of cannelloni. Heavy and still and deaf, and attached to Pedro Akira’s stocky body by a strong, manly neck.” When the opposition presidential candidate is brutally assassinated in the fictional Latin American country of more »