Brief Encounters with Che Guevara

<p><strong>Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award * A National Bestseller</strong></p><p><strong></strong><strong>An exceptional story collection.</strong><strong> --<em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong></p><p>The well-intentioned protagonists of <em>Brief Encounters with Che Guevera</em>--including a disillusioned NGO worker the wife of a special operations officer and an obssessed ornithologist--are caught to both disastrous and hilarious effect in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding them. </p><p>With masterful pacing and a robust sense of the absurd each story is a self-contained adventure steeped in the heady mix of tragedy and danger excitement and hope that characterizes countries in transition. An intelligent and keenly observed collection <em>Brief Encounters with Che Guevera</em> marks the arrival of a striking and resonant new voice that speaks adeptly to the intimate connection between the foreign the familiar and the inescapably human.</p>