The big banana
By: Roberto Quesada ; translated by Walter Krochmal.
Publisher: Arte Público Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Houston, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Description: Eduardo Lin loves New York. Where else could an aspiring (if under-employed) Honduran actor possibly want to be? In The Big Banana, we follow the struggles of Eduardo, his gringo boss Charlie, his true love Mirian, and his many Latin American friends to survive in the Big Apple.

Beneath their hardscrabble everyday lives, we also perceive their hopes, their nightmares and their outlandish, Hollywood-inspired fantasies. (Mirian in particular is prey to a rather unusual erotic fixation on the legendary Bond...James Bond - leading to a curious, and not altogether accidental, international encounter.).