Brief Encounters with Che Guevara

272 pages

English language

Published April 10, 2007 by Harper Perennial.

(2 reviews)

The well-meaning protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara are caught—to both disastrous and hilarious effect—in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding them. Ben Fountain's prize-winning debut speaks to the intimate connection between the foreign, the familiar, and the inescapably human.

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3 stars

Enjoyable short stories, mostly though loosely around a revolutionary latin american setting, especially expats temporarily thrust into revolution or its aftermath. Melancholy characters without much ability to act, or at least for their actions to matter.

Kirsten Menger-Anderson

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Aug. 5, 2011