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“... snack which tries the jaw for size and strength, sold in Britain as the doner-kebab. With Jorge Ibarguengoitia’s The Lightning of August, we move from history as tragedy to history as farce: a Mexican revolution of 1929. In common with Mo’s and al-Shaykh’s novels, it contains a short section apparently anchoring it to the real world. The ...”

“... a historical break that is both catastrophic and redemptive) and one from the Mexican novelist Jorge Ibargüengoitia’s The Dead Girls (1977), another crime narrative. Melchor’s epigraph is not taken from the novel itself but from the author’s disclaimer: ‘Some of the events described here are real. All of the characters are invented.’ She ...”