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Guillermo Verdecchia is primarily known for his award-winning plays; Citizen Suárez is his first book of short stories, and it is a remarkable debut.

These stories take on the quintessential issues forced upon a generation betrayed by their citizenshipa betrayal the more profound because it subsists primarily in the global death of the nation-state. These are stories about people travelling, wandering or lost between countries and languagespeople caught between the impulse to flee and the desire to belong. Sex, geography and politics grip the protagonists of these pieces, demanding promises, compromises and resolutions. These are stories about powerpersonal, civic, sexual, filial, politicaland how, lubricious, it slips between the fingers. Quiet, careful, witty, they document and celebrate survivalconsolations, complicities and accommodations in the face of indifference, cruelty and fear. The characters of these stories are known to the reader, intimately known, becaus

Citizen Suárez

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      Publisher Talonbooks
      Published 2 April 1998
      ISBN-13 9780889223912
      978-0889223912
      ISBN-10 0889223912

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Guillermo Verdecchia is primarily known for his award-winning plays; Citizen Suárez is his first book of short stories, and it is a remarkable debut.

      These stories take on the quintessential issues forced upon a generation betrayed by their citizenshipa betrayal the more profound because it subsists primarily in the global death of the nation-state. These are stories about people travelling, wandering or lost between countries and languagespeople caught between the impulse to flee and the desire to belong. Sex, geography and politics grip the protagonists of these pieces, demanding promises, compromises and resolutions. These are stories about powerpersonal, civic, sexual, filial, politicaland how, lubricious, it slips between the fingers. Quiet, careful, witty, they document and celebrate survivalconsolations, complicities and accommodations in the face of indifference, cruelty and fear. The characters of these stories are known to the reader, intimately known, becaus

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