After the Bombs - Hardcover

Arias, Arturo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0915306883 ISBN 13: 9780915306886

Publisher: Curbstone Press,U.S., 1995

Synopsis

In the years that follow the bombing of Guatemala City in 1954, young Max grows into manhood as he searches for his identity, his father, and his place in the struggles of his country

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Review:

""After the Bombs" is a sort of bildungsroman run riot. Arias mixes stream-of-consciousness, lyrical outbursts, Marx Brothers antics, a nuanced, poetic sense of rhythm in his sentence construction, funky gossip, and myth, all with a fine sense of theatricality." --"Voice Literary Supplement"

"After the Bombs is a sort of bildungsroman run riot. Arias mixes stream-of-consciousness, lyrical outbursts, Marx Brothers antics, a nuanced, poetic sense of rhythm in his sentence construction, funky gossip, and myth, all with a fine sense of theatricality." --Voice Literary Supplement

"A sumptuous buffet of characters and situations." --Booklist

"Mr. Arias . . . has produced a powerfully disturbing work." --New York Times Book Review

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Curbstone Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0915306883
• ISBN 13: 9780915306886
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 221