The Banana Wars
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Winner of the Dzanc Prize for Fiction
Winner: Georgia Author of the Year Award, literary novel category
Urabá, Colombia, 1990: A violent strike at plantations across the banana zone leads to crops in flames, managers murdered, and the local economy teetering on the brink. In retaliation, the banana producers finance rightwing paramilitaries to cleanse the zone of guerrillas and their supposed collaborators.
Through the intertwined lives of four characters—a banana worker making a play for pow...






















