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By Roberto Quesada
In this novel a gaggle of younger males migrate to the guts of the pineapple plantations in Honduras, on a trip of discovery and private liberation, a tender hero is able to stay an event of affection and struggle.
Roberto Quesada's narrative strikes besides the ability and innocence of younger lives destined to defeat the evil forces of social injustice and the abuse of strength of international intervention.
The Ships is a beautiful novel within which the paranormal realism of modern Latin American narrative is enriched via the skillful dealing with of Quesada well known oral culture and language.
Ph. D. Fernando Alegría
Stanford collage
He served as cultural connecté from the govt. of Salvador Allende (Chile) to the us from 1970 to 1973. he's a Poet, author, literary critic and student.
San Francisco/California/October 1991
A new voice at the relevant American scene was once Roberto Quesada from Honduras. His novel The Ships describes the occasional triumphs of way of life in an international close to poverty. It charts the development of a tender author named Guillermo within the Honduran coastal city of l. a. Ceiba. one of many quite a few confident reactions this booklet evoked used to be from the yank author Kurt Vonnegut, who defined Quesada as a "lively and proficient author jam-packed with a laugh and thought-provoking ideas."
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, 1993 GARBROK, pag. 221.
(Raymond Leslie Williams)
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