After the Bombs

Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-0-915306-89-3
Verlag: Northwestern University Press

Buch, Englisch, 221 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

After the Bombs is a coming of age story that holds a mirror up to the modern history of Guatemala - a funhouse mirror of richly inventive and farcical black comedy which provides a better description of life in that country than any history book ever could. It opens with the bombing of Guatemala City in 1954 when the hero, Max, is a small child. In a swiftly moving narrative, Max journeys twoard adulthood, searching for his identitty, for his father, and along the way, for the real Guatemala and the possibility of a society founded on human decency, after the bombs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arias, Arturo

Weitere Mitwirkende

Zatz, Asa

Über Autor(innen)

Arturo Arias (Guatemala city, 1950) is a Guatemalan novelist and critic, who is currently a professor of 20th-century Spanish-American Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught courses specializing in: Central American literature; Indigenous literatures; social and critical theory; race, gender and sexuality in postcolonial societies; cultural studies, and ethnographic approaches. Professor Arias has previously taught at the Redlands University in Southern California and is a past president of the Latin American Studies Association. Dr. Arias holds a PhD in Sociology of Literature, from L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes Paris, France. (1978) He has written 6 novels and have been awarded with several prizes.Asa Zatz was born in Mexico and has translated nearly one hundred books. He lives in New York.