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Title: Assault on Paradise: A Novel by Tatiana Lobo, Asa Zatz ISBN: 1-880684-46-2 Publisher: Curbstone Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: I could not get through this book
Comment: I selected this book because it was well reviewed and I wanted to "get to know" Costa Rica before I visited there. Unlike other historical novels I have read about other places before I travelled there, this one failed to give me a sense of place. In fact, I could not finish it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent first novel from talented writer
Comment: Tatiana Lobo's Assault on Paradise is a deftly crafted exploration of colonial Costa Rica. From Juan de las Alas, who defies the Church and gravity, to Pedro and the child Catarina, the characters have depth and personality. In a story that is engrossing and entertaining, the author sheds light not only on a forgotten corner of colonial Latin America but also on the place of women, Indians, and heretics within it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Not bad .... but echoing sentiments expressed before...
Comment: This is an interesting book; limited to one view of one episode in the development of this unusual part of the world; and a one-dimensional perspective on the Conquistadores; an already badrapped bunch at worst not too much fiercer than what they replaced; there's so few virgins in the world today, if the sacrificial practices in place prior to the Spanish occupation had survived into the present it would impose a critical crimp.
Which is not to overlook the Spaniards' own assassination rites in the form of the Inquisition -
so maybe it all balances out.
Paradise is under assault by Europeans again - and likewise Asians - ravaging the landscape under jungles of honeycomb hutch highrise, and loggers' seeming unending decimation of the rainforests. History repeating? Ongoing examples of human nature the spoiler, down through the ages...
It's likely that ASSAULT ON PARADISE accomplished a heightened focus of attention on Costa Rica. Perhaps A CAT'S FULL NINE, in its fusing of past and present - and its fantasy/fictional Perfect Crime gimmmick - will enlarge upon this effort.
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Title: Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion (Costa Rica) by Barbara Ras, Oscar Arias ISBN: 1883513006 Publisher: Whereabouts Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: When New Flowers Bloomed: Short Stories by Women Writers from Costa Rica and Panama (Discoveries (Latin American Literary)) by Enrique Jaramillo Levi ISBN: 0935480471 Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Moon Handbooks: Costa Rica 4 Ed by Christopher P. Baker ISBN: 1566913446 Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Once Minutos by Paulo Coelho ISBN: 0060591838 Publisher: Rayo Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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