Everyone without a gun is a victim in The Armies. Evelio Rosero communicates the nature of arbitrary and anonymous terror in Colombia with chilling skill
Categories: Colombia, South America
Tag: Fiction
There is no paradise without snakes
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In Samahua, the Mexican novelist Leonardo da Jandra recounts how his search for Eden led him into Hades
Categories: Mexico, North America
Havana Fever
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(Sleazy) tales of revolution and betrayal
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Ronald Flores examines the work of the Salvadorean novelist Horacio Castellanos Moya, one of Central America’s most prolific writers whose Senselessness (Insensatez) was published this year by New Directions
Categories: Central America, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras
A journey around my father
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In El olvido que seremos, Héctor Abad Faciolince implores a desensitised Colombia not to forget its dead
Categories: Colombia, South America
Don’t shoot me until after Christmas
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A remarkable short story reveals how violence has permeated Colombian literary culture
Categories: Colombia, South America
No escape from the human condition
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Las viudas de los jueves creates a microcosm of Argentine society in which hypocritical arrivistes are doomed to fail in their bid to shut out the squalor beyond
Categories: Argentina, South America
A testing text
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Final Exam was Julio Cortázar’s first novel but the last published – fitting, perhaps, for a plot that purposefully lacks direction
Categories: Argentina, South America
Young but untouchable
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Boy Kills Man may be short but, like the Colombian child killers it depicts, its effect on the reader will be deadly
Categories: Colombia, South America
Ostinato without the repetition
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The poet and writer Javier Payeras gives a hoarse, urban voice to the edgy post-war youth of Guatemala City Ruido de fondoJavier Payeras2006, Piedra Santa65 pages Reviewed by Gavin O’Toole NOISY, NO… Ruido de fondo is deafening, and will leave the careless visitor to the Guatemala City of Javier Payeras with a ringing in the…
Categories: Central America, Guatemala