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The Banana Wars by Alan Grostephan is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Winner of the Dzanc Prize for Fiction Urabá, Colombia, 1990: A violent strike at plantations across the banana zone leads to crops in flames, managers murdered, and the local economy teetering on the brink. In retaliation, the banana producers finance right-wing paramilitaries to cleanse the zone of guerrillas and their supposed collaborators. Through the intertwined lives of four characters—a banana worker making a play for power in the guerrillas, a decadent Colombian banana planter who runs his business from the safety of Medellín, a widow in Urabá struggling to stay on the right side of the local paramilitaries, and an American banana executive wading ever deeper into troubled waters— The Banana Wars charts the struggle to survive in impossible conditions, in a place where no one is to be trusted and one false move can lead to...

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Author

Alan Grostephan

Publisher

Dzanc Books

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781950539949

Category

work of fiction