Reviews in March 2008

LatAmRoB, Volume 2, Number 3


The enigmatic drifter

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Ronald Flores traces the literary peregrinations of fellow Guatemalan novelist Rodrigo Rey Rosa, arguably his country’s most well known and translated contemporary writer
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Juan Batista Plaza and Musical Nationalism in Venezuela

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The Past

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A Revolution for our Rights: Indigenous Struggles in Bolivia

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A Contemporary Cuba Reader

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The silence of complicity

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Suspicion impregnates every line of Pequeños hombres blancos, Patricia Ratto’s debut novel about life under the Argentine dictatorship Continue reading

Reality-tinted glasses

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Jay Kerr finds a surprising engagement with ordinary people in Cuba Represent!

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The Columbia History of Latinos in the United States Since 1960

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Missing piece of the rural jigsaw

The study of the Mexican countryside will never be the same after Aaron Bobrow-Strain’s Intimate Enemies Continue reading

A tale of torture

Final Silence takes readers on a journey into the psychology of violence, bravely shining a light on the darkest recesses of the torturer’s mind Continue reading

Destiny’s bad loser

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George Grayson’s Mexican Messiah is a provocative biographical study of the leftwing firebrand Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Gavin O’Toole reads his account of a journey to calvary Continue reading

Survival of the fittest

The Buenos Aires of Cecilia Szperling’s intriguing debut novel Selección natural is a food chain in which a failure to evolve can be fatal Continue reading

Lunar psycho

Costa Rica spatters back on to the literary scene with the groundbreaking true crime novel Cadence of the Moon Continue reading


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