| The Last Days of El Comandante Contributor(s): Barrera Tyszka, Alberto (Author), Harvey, Rosalind (Translator), Mendez Sayer, Jessie (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1477316574 ISBN-13: 9781477316573 Publisher: University of Texas Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Political |
| Dewey: 863.64 |
| LCCN: 2019026435 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5" W x 7.9" (0.60 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: ?President Hugo Chávez's cancer looms large over Venezuela in 2012, casting a shadow of uncertainty and creating an atmosphere of secrets, lies, and upheaval across the country. This literary thriller follows the connected lives of several Caracas neighbors consumed by the turmoil surrounding the Venezuelan president's impending death. Retired oncologist Miguel Sanabria, seeing the increasingly combustible world around him, feels on constant edge. He finds himself at odds with his wife, an extreme anti-Chavista, and his radical Chavista brother. These feelings grow when his nephew asks him to undertake the perilous task of hiding cell-phone footage of Chávez in Cuba. Fredy Lecuna, an unemployed journalist, takes a job writing a book about Chávez's condition, which requires him to leave for Cuba while his landlord attempts to kick his wife and son out of their apartment. Nine-year-old María, long confined to an apartment with a neurotic mother intensely fearful of the city's violence, finds her only contact with the outside world through a boy she messages online. |
Contributor Bio(s): Barrera Tyszka, Alberto: - Alberto Barrera Tyszka is a poet, novelist, television screenwriter, and journalist. He is the author of three short story collections, four poetry collections, four novels, and three nonfiction books, including a best-selling and critically acclaimed biography of Hugo Chávez.Harvey, Rosalind: - Rosalind Harvey has translated books by authors including Enrique Vila-Matas, Héctor Abad, Elvira Navarro, Guadalupe Nettel and Juan Pablo Villalobos.Mendez Sayer, Jessie: - Jessie Mendez Sayer is a literary translator, editor, and former literary scout. |