Zone of Fire - Hardcover

Conrad-detrez

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ISBN 10: 0151999899 ISBN 13: 9780151999897

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In the aftermath of the eruption that razed most of Managua in 1972, a French volcanologist arrives in Nicaragua to study the "zone of fire." He quickly learns that more than geologic tremors is shaking the country. The narrative, recounting his chance but rather intense association with several Sandinistas, focuses on two brothers, Alvaro and the ominously named and homosexual Abel. The adventures, liaisons, and fates of these two and their comrades reveal the moral ambiguity inherent in revolutionary motives and actions. Detrez does not use the central metaphor implied in his title as effectively as he might have, but he ultimately succeeds in engaging the reader's concern for his characters without making the dichotomous judgments so often found in political novels. L. M. Lewis, Social Science Dept., Eastern Kentucky Univ., Richmond Duranti, Francesca. The House on Moon Lake.
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Detrez (A Weed for Burning tempts the reader with apocalyptic prose ripe with imaginative metaphors, but his picaresque, unfocused, episodic plot ultimately fails to satisfy. The distant narrator ("You're not here to get involved in conspiracies, or to reform the world, or to change your sex, or to alter God's nature") is a French scientist who visits Nicaragua on the eve of the Sandinista revolution to study the volatile "zone of fire," or volcanic region, which is, of course, an omnipresent natural symbol of the Central American country. He befriends rebels, particularly the homosexual Abel, whose experiences frame the story and whose irreconcilable relationship with his brother, Alvaro, is not unlike that of the biblical Abel. Although descriptions of the desperation, chaos and futility of revolution, the squalor of Managua and the degradation of the country's women are vivid, the characters and their motivations are disappointingly obscure.
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• Erscheinungsdatum: 1986
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0151999899
• ISBN 13: 9780151999897
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