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...name from the plant, a tiny island called Perejil - or Leila in Arabic - that lies a short swim off the Moroccan coast. The "capture" of the long-uninhabited outcrop by Morocco and then Spain's sending its navy to retrieve it seems a soft summer story more Waugh than war. London's Daily Telegraph ran a page-wide headline: "Naval might defeats boys' slingshots." But it's not really so funny. The political waters beneath Perejil are deep and dangerous. If Spain and Morocco can't get along - and recently this has been so in spades - then the wider North...
...less skillful hands, The Russian Debutante's Handbook could have turned into a fish-in-barrel exercise. But Shteyngart takes care to make his alter ego, Girshkin, look as ridiculous as his victims, and the result is a satisfying skewering all round, as funny and wicked as Waugh...
Journalists are a varied assortment, of course--some of them as shabby, venal or self-important as the cast of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop, the 1937 novel that is still the most hilarious depiction of foreign correspondents and their publishers in the grip of a vigorous incomprehension of just about everything. In the book William Boot, who writes a nature column for a British newspaper called the Beast--composing sentences like "Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole"--is recruited by mistake to join a collection of journalistic mountebanks and hacks in covering coup and countercoup...
...novel's catchy title, aptly describing the burden of the plot, derives from a volume of Balzac containing Ursule Mirouët wheedled out of the hidden cache of a fellow re-educatee in a nearby village. The book becomes as cherished as any work of Dickens in Waugh's A Handful of Dust. For when Luo reads and then retells the story to a dazzling but illiterate Chinese seamstress, she falls in idyllic love with both him and Balzac. Youthful passions reign, and the lovers and the narrator find themselves beset with the ultimate woe of literary teenage coupling...
...Journalists are a varied assortment, of course - some of them as shabby, venal or self-important as the cast of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop, the 1937 novel that is still the most hilarious depiction of foreign correspondents and their publishers in the grip of a vigorous incomprehension of just about everything. In the book William Boot, who writes a nature column for a British newspaper called the Beast - composing sentences like "Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole" - is recruited by mistake to join a collection of journalistic mountebanks and hacks in covering coup and countercoup...