Gunshots at the Fiesta : Literature and Politics in Latin America - Maarten van Delden Crime he ends up in a

he ends up in a crumbling flat with a mercurial landlady and her volatile son

an exhilarating and vital book' - Charles Foster

heartbreak and laughter' Jennie Godfrey

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Gunshots at the Fiesta : Literature and Politics in Latin America - Maarten van Delden Crime he ends up in aThe product of a unique collaboration between a literary critic (Van Delden) and a political scientist (Grenier), this book looks at the relationship between literature and politics in Latin America, a region where these two domains exist in closer proximity than perhaps anywhere else in the Western world. The apparently seamless blending of literature and politics is reflected in the explicitly political content of much of the continent's writing, as