The Banana Wars by Alan Grostephan Hardcover Book

Description: The Banana Wars by Alan Grostephan Winner of the Dzanc Prizefor Fiction Urabá, Colombia, 1990: A violent strike at plantationsacross the banana zone leads to crops in flames, managers murdered, and the localeconomy teetering on the brink. In retaliation, the banana producers financeright-wing paramilitaries to cleanse the zone of guerrillas and their supposedcollaborators. Through the intertwined lives of fourcharacters--a banana worker making a play for power in the guerrillas, adecadent Colombian banana planter who runs his business from the safety ofMedellín, a widow in Urabá struggling to stay on the right side of the localparamilitaries, and an American banana executive wading ever deeper intotroubled waters--The Banana Wars chartsthe struggle to survive in impossible conditions, in a place where no one is tobe trusted and one false move can lead to death. Starkly drawn from the true history of Urabá andthis period of conflict, including the unseen role of US corporate interests, celebrated author Alan Grostephans latest is an incandescent historical novelfor fans of Jesmyn Ward, Roberto Bolaño, and Fernanda Melchor. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Alan Grostephan is the author of Bogotá, a novel chosen by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best ten books of fiction in 2013 and longlisted for the Pen/Robert W. Bingham Prize. He is also the editor and translator of "Stories of Life and Death," a collection of writing by emerging Colombian writers. He lives in Georgia. Review "The novels scenes are compact and eventful, and itssentences direct and percussive. The hardboiled depiction of extremelawlessness invites comparisons to Graham Greene. And like Phil Klaysoutstanding novel "Missionaries" (2020), also about Americas interventions inColombias civil unrest, the realistic story doubles as a kind of allegory ofmodern war, in which alliances and rationales are fluid, money is primary andviolence generates more violence. "It was transgression to be alive," Orejasthinks in a particularly infernal scene, and there is a sense in this powerfulnovel that freedom from sin is only truly granted to the dead." --Wall StreetJournal "Grim yet affecting...This war story stands out for itsheartrending portrait of the conflicts impact on individual lives."--Publishers Weekly "Grostephan traces the shifting fortunes of severalcharacters in 1990s Colombia ... a harrowing tale of survival at increasinglybrutal costs." --Kirkus Reviews "Here is a novel in which dead men still speak for not even the dead shut their mouths. The Banana Wars is as fine a novel as Juan Rulfos Pedro Páramo or Fernanda Melchors Hurricane Season. Alan Grostephans prose is devastatingly precise, with a beauty that arises--perversely--only from horrifying situations. I have not read anything as fine as The Banana Wars in ages."--Michelle Latiolais, author of Widow and She "In Urabá, Columbia, the banana trade is an extremely violent and unsettling history, one that Grostephan resists sugarcoating. Unlike an actual banana, there is nothing banal or mild about The Banana Wars. Told from several compelling perspectives, this novel is blistering, unflinching, and hard to put down."--Jen Beagin, author of Big Swiss and Vacuum in the Dark "Dont let banana in this title alleviate war in any way for you. From its opening quote by A.S. Ramos to its final chapter, Alan Grostephans THE BANANA WARS is a riveting and indispensable novel that hails life as monumental, and the only force of the Universe worth talking about--fuck all them Riders of the Apocalypse! It just so happens that life burns brightest when its opposing forces are present and Grostephan knows this well; he is marvelous at detail, an engrossing storyteller and a deep feeler to boot. What a book! It was both a surprise and a balm for this war-torn heart and mind to read it."--Ismet Prcic, author of Shards and Unspeakable Home "I dare you to enjoy a banana split after youve read AlanGrostephans gut-wrenching novel The Banana Wars. Vividlywritten, unforgettably peopled, ranging across a landscape at once horrific andsublime, The Banana Wars will wring you out, leaving you at onceexhausted and enriched, the way every good book exacts something from you evenas it feeds your soul." -Angel Khoury, bestselling author of BetweenTides "A searing account of the ongoing consequences of colonialpower structures in Colombia. What strikes me about The Banana Wars isthe keen, journalistic eye and the refusal to look away from the lives andpower struggles of everyday people--guerillas, paramilitary soldiers, sexworkers, plantation owners and their backers overseas--all of whom are trappedin a brutal system of exploitation and madness." -Blair Austin, author of Dioramas "Alan Grostephan writes with lush exuberance as though hewere a Garcia Marquezs nephew. Confidently the narrative follows severalpeople, switching POVs along the way, so we have a nearly omniscientpicture of the class warfare, crime, and the mystery centered around the magicfruit, and at the same time intimate and sensual details. Cinematic. Eachsentence delights." -Josip Novakovich, author of Rubble of Rubles Details ISBN1950539946 Publisher Dzanc Books Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781950539949 Format Hardcover Imprint Dzanc Books Audience General Author Alan Grostephan Publication Date 2024-06-27 Pages 280 DEWEY 813.6 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:160036844;

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