Description: Banana Wars, Hardcover by Grostephan, Alan, ISBN 1950539946, ISBN-13 9781950539949, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 Grostephan’s latest is an incandescent historical novelfor fans of Jesmyn Ward, Roberto Bolaño, and Fernanda Melchor.
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Book Title: Banana Wars
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 0.9 in
Topic: General, Literary
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 15.9 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Alan Grostephan
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
