Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories

"An exceptional story collection"* featuring Americans abroad finding themselves in absurd cultural and political situations they don't understand.

A National BestsellerWinner of the PEN/Hemingway Award

The well-intentioned protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevera—including a disillusioned NGO worker, the wife of a special operations officer, and an obsessed ornithologist—are caught, to both disastrous and hilarious effect, in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surround...