{"product_id":"9780061847622","title":"Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe well-intentioned protagonists of \u003cem\u003eBrief Encounters with Che Guevara\u003c\/em\u003e are caught -- to both disastrous and hilarious effect -- in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding them. In \"Near-Extinct Birds of the Central Cordillera,\" an ornithologist being held hostage in the Colombian rain forest finds that he respects his captors for their commitment to a cause, until he realizes that the Revolution looks a lot like big business. In \"The Good Ones Are Already Taken,\" the wife of a Special Forces officer battles a Haitian voodoo goddess with whom her husband is carrying on a not-entirely-spiritual relationship. And in \"The Lion's Mouth,\" a disillusioned aid worker makes a Faustian bargain to become a diamond smuggler for the greater good. With masterful pacing and a robust sense of the absurd, each story in \u003cem\u003eBrief Encounters with Che Guevara\u003c\/em\u003e is a self-contained adventure, steeped in the heady mix of tragedy and danger, excitement and hope, that characterizes countries in transition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough Fountain's rounded and novelistic prose, these intelligent and keenly observed stories are painted in provocative and vibrant detail across a global canvas. \u003cem\u003eBrief Encounters with Che Guevara\u003c\/em\u003e marks the arrival of a striking and resonant new voice that speaks adeptly to the intimate connection between the foreign, the familiar, and the inescapably human.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47148066734320,"sku":"9780061847622","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780061847622","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}