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 of political and social upheaval surrounding them. With masterful pacing and a robust sense of the absurd, each story is a self-contained ...
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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 of political and social upheaval surrounding them. With masterful pacing and a robust sense of the absurd, each story is a self-contained adventure, steeped in the heady mix of tragedy and danger, excitement and hope, that characterizes countries in transition. An intelligent and keenly observed collection, Brief Encounters with Che Guevera marks the arrival of a striking and resonant new voice that speaks adeptly to the intimate connection between the foreign, the familiar, and the inescapably human.
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I bought this book after Malcolm Gladwell mentioned it in What the Dog Saw and I was not dissapointed after I read it. Brief Encounters with Che Guevara is a very enjoyable and quick read that shows a very personal look at many different parts of the world. Fountain does an excellent job of depicting the foreign cultures of Haiti, Colombia, and Sierra Leon to name a few. I highly recommend this book and I know you will want to pass it on to a friend.
kava
Apr 3, 2007
Best book of short stories I have read in years. The usual complaint about literary short stories is that they concern themselves with insignificant domestic issues and ignore the larger world--that however "fine" the writing, the content is trivial. And the most telling complaint about fiction that does address the large world issues is that it is boring. Well, here is a writer who can enter into any part of the Third World, however remote, however alien to our Western bourgeois life, and tell a story with dramatic power, in a language that is enviably concrete and vivid, with characters pulsating with life, with suspense in the movement of the action almost painfully intense, yet without any tricks of the trade. I have never before read such good writing applied to such a world-view. Whether it is Haiti, Thailand,Sierr Leone, Columbia-this is the familiar territory of human charcter, for better or worse.
