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"Arturo Arias is one of the most interesting young writers in Latin America."—Eduardo Galeano
"A sumptuous buffet of characters and situations." -- Angus Trimnell, Booklist
"This powerful novel by the co-author of the script for the film 'El Norte' dissects the spirit of a country living through a nightmare." -- Publishers Weekly
"Arias renders this ragged and death-riddled world with a vivid combination of bloody images, fragmented prose and a nicely ironic sense of the ludicrous." -- Alan Ryan, New York Newsday
"This book offers an essential and unforgettable glimpse into a world so near our own, yet so distant...Arias offers a conclusion that is colorful and powerful but does not try to blot out the horror that pervades this important and unsettling novel." -- Steve Kettmann, San Francisco Chronicle Review
"Mr. Arias...has produced a powerfully disturbing work." -- Anne Whitehouse, The New York Times Book Review
"This novel will sift through your consciousness long after the last page is turned" -- Linda Manning, The Cobourg Daily Star
After the Bombs is a coming of age story that holds a mirror up to the modern history of Guatemala—a funhouse mirror of richly inventive and farcical black comedy which provides a better description of life in that country than any history book ever could.
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