Ben Fountain
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award * A National Bestseller
“An exceptional story collection.” —New York Times Book Review
The well-intentioned protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevera—including a disillusioned NGO worker, the wife of a special operations officer, and an obssessed ornithologist—are caught, to both disastrous and hilarious effect, in the maelstrom
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
531 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide has been toppled in a violent coup d'état, bringing to power a brutal military dictatorship. With turmoil in the streets and an international embargo threatening to destroy even the country's most powerful players, some are looking to gain an advantage in chaos--and others are just looking to make it through another day. American expat Matt Amaker, forced out of his beachfront scuba shop by a drug-smuggling...