{"product_id":"the-banana-wars-9781938603136","title":"The Banana Wars","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Dzanc Prize\nfor Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen a banana strike explodes into a war zone, a worker, a widow, a wealthy planter, and an American executive are pulled into a deadly chain of betrayals that no one can escape unscathed.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nUrabá, Colombia, 1990: A violent strike at plantations\nacross the banana zone leads to crops in flames, managers murdered, and the local\neconomy teetering on the brink. In retaliation, the banana producers finance\nright-wing paramilitaries to cleanse the zone of guerrillas and their supposed\ncollaborators.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the intertwined lives of four\ncharacters—a banana worker making a play for power in the guerrillas, a\ndecadent Colombian banana planter who runs his business from the safety of\nMedellín, a widow in Urabá struggling to stay on the right side of the local\nparamilitaries, and an American banana executive wading ever deeper into\ntroubled waters—\u003ci\u003eThe Banana Wars \u003c\/i\u003echarts\nthe struggle to survive in impossible conditions, in a place where no one is to\nbe trusted and one false move can lead to death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStarkly drawn from the true history of Urabá and\nthis period of conflict, including the unseen role of US corporate interests,\ncelebrated author Alan Grostephan’s latest is an incandescent historical novel\nfor fans of Jesmyn Ward, Roberto Bolaño, and Fernanda Melchor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n","brand":"Alan Grostephan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49074056200443,"sku":"9781938603136","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-banana-wars-9781938603136","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}