Waslala
Subtitle: memorial del futuro
By: Gioconda Belli.
Publisher: Anamá Ediciones Centroamericanas
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Managua, Nicaragua
Language: spa
Number of pages: 379
Description: "Belli typically combines fact and fiction in her novels. This futuristic novel may have the fortune of Fuentes' Terra nostra: a great failed attempt at an epic. Here, Belli experiments with the style of a roman à clef since the protagonists, Don José and Doña María, are based on the canonical poet José Coronel Urtecho and his wife, María Kautz. Toxic waste combined with smugglers, drugs, civil wars, and the magic realism of the mythical Waslala (naturally founded by poets) provide the setting for Belli's utopian message. The love between the journalist Rafael and the beautiful Melissandra, and the adventures that ensue, will appeal to a global audience"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.