Assault on paradise
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Tatiana Lobo ; translated by Asa Zatz.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Curbstone press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Willimantic, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Costa Rica -- History -- To 1821 -- Fiction
Description: Assault on Paradise vividly depicts the Conquistadores and the Church invading Central America, impoverishing one world to enrich another.

In a fast-paced, bawdy, swashbuckling adventure in Central America of the early 1700s, Costa Rican novelist Tatiana Lobo lays bare the dark legacy of the Conquistadores and the Church.

Through the central picaresque story of Pedro Albaran, Lobo dramatizes the intrigues of politicians and the Inquisition and the bloody battles between the native people and the invaders, while simultaneously presenting a reverent poetic recreation of indigenous cosmogony and mystical values which the natives seek to use to drive out the invaders.