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The well-intentioned protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara are caught - to both disastrous and hilarious effect - in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding them. In "Near-Extinct Birds of the Central Cordillera," an ornithologist being held hostage in the Colombian rain forest finds that he respects his captors for their commitment to a cause, until he realizes that the Revolution looks a lot like big business. In "The Good Ones Are Already Taken," the wife of a Special Forces officer battles a Haitian voodoo goddess with whom her husband is carrying on a not-entirely-spiritual relationship. And in "The Lion's Mouth," a disillusioned aid worker makes a Faustian bargain to become a diamond smuggler for the greater good. With masterful pacing and a robust sense of the absurd, each story in Brief Encounters with Che Guevara is a self-contained adventure, steeped in the heady mix of tragedy and danger, excitement and hope, that characterizes countries in transition.
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P.S.: Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, Ben Fountain
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2006
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- (Paperback),
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- € 4,79
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- Untertitel
- Stories
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Ben Fountain
- Verlag
- HarperCollins
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2006
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 272
- ISBN10
- 0061438421
- ISBN13
- 9780061438424
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historische Romane, Gegenwartsliteratur, Politik, Kurzgeschichten, Kriegsliteratur, Kriege, Geschichten, Tod, Leben, Revolution, Lager, Myanmar, Haiti, Sierra Leone
- Originaltitel
- Brief encounters with Che Guevara
- Bewertung
- 3,95 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- The well-intentioned protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara are caught - to both disastrous and hilarious effect - in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding them. In "Near-Extinct Birds of the Central Cordillera," an ornithologist being held hostage in the Colombian rain forest finds that he respects his captors for their commitment to a cause, until he realizes that the Revolution looks a lot like big business. In "The Good Ones Are Already Taken," the wife of a Special Forces officer battles a Haitian voodoo goddess with whom her husband is carrying on a not-entirely-spiritual relationship. And in "The Lion's Mouth," a disillusioned aid worker makes a Faustian bargain to become a diamond smuggler for the greater good. With masterful pacing and a robust sense of the absurd, each story in Brief Encounters with Che Guevara is a self-contained adventure, steeped in the heady mix of tragedy and danger, excitement and hope, that characterizes countries in transition.