FOR the first three quarters of this 325-page novel, Peruvian master, Mario Vargas Llosa seems to be spinning, in alternating chapters, two quite separate — albeit thematically similar — yarns.

Bradley Wiggins has pulled out of the Giro d’Italia because of a chest infection.

SHORTLY after boarding a plane, passengers say they saw a man bolt from his seat and run down the aisle, with his screaming wife and man in a Hawaiian shirt behind.