Funny Dirty Little War
In this political satire of postwar Argentina, a group of village officials, ordered by their city bosses to find "infiltrators," brands the council leader and the local tax collector "Marxist-Communists" and sets out to arrest them. The two falsely accused men put up a fight, leading quickly to a siege of city hall, shootings, assassinations, arson, bombings. In a day, much of the village is destroyed in a spurious fight between people who all consider themselves followers of Peron. (Typically, a series of hostile notes between the two sides ends with the same phrase, "Peron or Death!") Reminiscent of works by Kurt Vonnegut and Vladimir Voinovich, this farce mirrors Argentina's self-destruction over the last three decades. Although written in 1980, it was published in that country only after the fall of the military junta in 1983.Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.