March Meeting: ASSAULT ON PARADISE

For March we'll be reading ASSAULT ON PARADISE by Tatiana Lobo, translated by Asa Zatz!

"Assault on Paradise vividly depicts the Conquistadores and the Church invading Central America, impoverishing one world to enrich another. In a fast-paced, bawdy, swashbuckling adventure in Central America of the early 1700s, Costa Rican novelist Tatiana Lobo lays bare the dark legacy of the Conquistadores and the Church. Through the central picaresque story of Pedro Albaran, Lobo dramatizes the intrigues of politicians and the Inquisition and the bloody battles between the native people and the invaders, while simultaneously presenting a reverent poetic recreation of indigenous cosmogony and mystical values which the natives seek to use to drive out the invaders." -Northwestern University Press

Please consider obtaining your copy from one of Madison's wonderful independent bookstores or from bookshop.org. There are also used copies available from several online retailers.