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Overview

Photojournalist Flash chases conflicts around the globe with her war correspondent husband, Brando. Now Brando is in Iraq awaiting her arrival, but instead of racing to join him, Flash idles in Istanbul, vaguely aware that her marriage is faltering. Her malaise is compounded by the arrival of a mysterious letter revealing Brando's infidelity—and by the sudden appearance of Alexandra, a fierce and captivating colleague who shared dangerous days with the couple in Afghanistan. As Flash spirals deeper into regret, anger, and indecision, she wonders if she and Brando were ever really happy—as she's forced to confront long-buried secrets and hard truths about her world, her marriage, her husband, and herself.

Editorial Reviews

Booklist
“[An] impressionistic and introspective tale . . . Menéndez offers astute and perceptive commentary on both the hidden and obvious effects of war and its aftermath.”
Denver Post
“An exquisitely crafted work . . . A novel, lyrically written, that feels strikingly real and heartfelt, a narrative by a woman destroying herself with imagination and doubt.”
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“A tart fable about history and identity that is equal parts detective story, travelogue and fever dream. . . . Inventive and hypnotic. . . . [An] evanescent pas de deux.”
Miami Herald
Praise for IN CUBA I WAS A GERMAN SHEPHERD: “Menendez taps into [a] wellspring of broken promises and unfulfilled desires and gives us a ... peek at ... the Cuban-American experience.”
Miami Herald on In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd
“Menendez taps into [a] wellspring of broken promises and unfulfilled desires and gives us a . . . peek at . . . the Cuban-American experience.”
New York Times Book Review
“[The Last War] speaks to Ana Menéndez’s maturity--as a woman and a writer. . . . A character study of those who have found their purpose in bearing witness to bloodshed.”
People
“[A] potent literary novel . . . A deft portrait of an estranged couple whose pain is veiled by the fog of war.”
South Florida Sun Sentinel
“Menendez is a skilled novelist - even admirers of her acclaimed short story collection, In Cuba I was a German Shepherd or her earlier novel, Loving Che, will be impressed with the deepening maturity of her writing. . . . [A] fully convincing psychological portrait.”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Menendez shows with unblinking honesty in her self-assured second novel The Last War how in conflict and its aftermath journalists can find or lose themselves. . . . Mendendez’s deep wisdom about people and their relationships is the payoff that always makes this insightful author worth reading.”
Vanity Fair
Praise for LOVING CHE: “[Loving Che] puts [Menendez] in the company of other Latino writers such as Junot Diaz and Sandra Cisneros.”
Vanity Fair on Loving Che
“[Loving Che] puts [Menendez] in the company of other Latino writers such as Junot Diaz and Sandra Cisneros.”
Gaiutra Bahadur
The novel was originally intended to evoke the macabre merry-go-round of reporters who have whirled in and out of Iraq - and, thankfully, it still does. It remains a character study of those who have found their purpose in bearing witness to bloodshed.
—The New York Times
Publishers Weekly

In her third work of fiction, Pushcart Prize-winner Menéndez (In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd) pits an ambivalent American expatriate photojournalist, nicknamed Flash, against everything she thought was real. While her war-correspondent husband, nicknamed Wonderboy, waits for her in Iraq, Flash wanders the streets of Istanbul, gazes from her apartment balcony and drinks bitter Turkish wine rather than deal with a marriage crippled by personal ambition and possible betrayal: early on, an anonymous letter arrives informing Flash of Wonderboy's infidelities abroad. From there, one scene blends into the next as Flash reconsiders her once-dependable husband; his occasional phone calls from Iraq puncture Flash's dream state with spikes of resentment, guilt, adoration and desperation. An old friend, beautiful Alexandra, plays the role of ideal expat; Flash has always "tried, without success, to emulate" Alexandra's "worldly looseness" and "calm assurance." Focusing on modes of suppression, the internal politics of memory and the tension between guilt and independence, Menéndez produces a story that slips by quickly, but leaves behind the resonant idea that it's human nature to "fear return" and "loathe the familiar," rather than the other way around. (June)

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Kirkus Reviews
Suspicions regarding her absent husband lead a news photographer into meditation on self-knowledge and conflict in Menendez's latest (Loving Che, 2004, etc.). Short, poetic, atmospheric and introspective, the narrative follows a Dominican-American nicknamed Flash as she descends into isolation and uncertainty after receiving a letter signed "Mira" (she doesn't know any one named Mira) that casually assumes she knows all about her husband Brando's current affair and previous adulteries. Flash and Brando-aka Wonderboy for his blond good looks and preppy aura-have spent a decade following wars around the world as a journalist/photographer team. "The papers he worked for then acted as if they were doing us a favor, allowing their boy wonder to travel with the wife," she notes sardonically. Currently he is in Baghdad, and Flash is waiting for accreditation in Istanbul. Even before the poisonous letter arrives she senses her reluctance to join him and also detects signs that the marriage may be fragile. A woman in a black abaya who seems to be following Flash turns out to be Alexandra, an old colleague from other chapters in her nomadic married life. Alexandra offers double-edged friendship while Flash wanders the city, drinks, decides to leave, changes her mind and is then overtaken by events. Brando remains an offstage presence, his phone calls variously practical, needy and ultimately angry in response to Flash's cool tone. Only years later does she come fully to accept that the layers of betrayal, delusion and loss in her marriage correspond to a larger world of eternal turmoil. A quietly piercing cultural and philosophical think-piece, comparable in its low-key, allusive moodiness to aEuropean art-house movie.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780061724770
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 6/29/2010
  • Pages: 225
  • Sales rank: 1,226,715
  • Series: P.S. Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.20 (w) x 7.90 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Ana Menéndez is a 2008 Fulbright scholar and the Pushcart Prize-winning author of two works of fiction, In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd, which was a New York Times Notable Book, and Loving Che. She has worked as a columnist for the Miami Herald and has also contributed to The New Republic, the New York Times, and Gourmet, as well as several anthologies. She lives in Miami, Florida.

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  • Posted November 28, 2010

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    Haunting And Fascinating

    They had the perfect marriage. Brando was a journalist, Flash was a photographer. Together they roamed the world, documenting wars for audiences safely at home. Now Brando is in Iraq in the early days of the war, embedded with the troops, while Flash waits in Istanbul for her visa. At first, she misses him immensely, but as the days pass, she wonders if she wants to follow him one more time, if this war will be any different from all the others.

    Then the letter comes. A sly, smug letter, informing her that Brando is living with another woman. She doesn't recognize the name of the letter writer, although the author writes as if she knows the couple well. Flash is torn. Fiercely rejecting the news one minute, down in the depths of depression and validating it the next, she doesn't know what to believe. Days go by. Brando continues to call most days but she doesn't mention the letter to him. She wants to see his face when she asks.

    As she wanders Istanbul, she keeps seeing a mysterious woman in Muslim garb, who seems to be following her. After several encounters, she confronts the woman and discovers that it is a former acquaintance, Alexandra. Alexandra is a writer, fixer, mover, who floats from culture to culture, always in demand but never that close to anyone. Flash and Brando met her and her young Arab lover years before in a convoy in Afghanistan, and have run into her over the years since.

    In the next weeks, Alexandra seems to take Flash on as a project. She forces her to get out and about, telling her there is no truth to the letter. Kind and sympathetic one day, she is cruel and dismissive the next. This leaves Flash in more disarray than ever, never knowing from one moment what is true and what is false, who can be believed and who will betray her.

    I. Loved. This. Book. It engages the reader on the first page and never lets go. Everyone has had the experience of loving someone, and reading about the agony of wondering if that love has been betrayed struck to the heart. As the author reveals layer upon layer of the characters, showing past events that have led to the current stages and hinting at causes, the reader is entranced. The mood is languorous with an undertone of menace. As the best books do, it makes the reader question what they know about life and love. This book is recommended for all readers.

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