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After the Bombs

After the Bombs is a coming of age story that holds a mirror up to the modern history of Guatemala — a funhouse mirror of richly inventive and farcical black comedy which provides a better description of life in that country than any history book ever could. It opens with the bombing of Guatemala City in 1954 when the hero, Max, is a small child. In a swiftly moving narrative, Max journeys toward adulthood, searching for his identity, for his father, and along the way, for the real Guatemala and the possibility of a society founded on human decency, after the bombs.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 221
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780915306893
  • Genres
  • fiction
  • Release date
  • 1995