
THE SHIPSIn this novel a group of young men migrate to the heart of the pineapple plantations in Honduras, on a journey of discovery and personal liberation, a young hero is ready to live an experience of love and war.Roberto Quesada's narrative moves along with the power and innocence of young lives destined to defeat the evil forces of social injustice and the abuse of power of foreign intervent...
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ps is a stunning novel in which the magical realism of recent Latin American narrative is enriched by the skillful handling of Quesada popular oral tradition and language.Ph. D. Fernando AlegríaStanford UniversityHe served as cultural attaché from the government of Salvador Allende (Chile) to the United States from 1970 to 1973. He is a Poet, writer, literary critic and scholar.San Francisco/California/October 1991A new voice on the Central American scene was Roberto Quesada from Honduras. His novel The Ships describes the occasional triumphs of daily life in a world near poverty. It charts the progress of a young writer named Guillermo in the Honduran coastal town of La Ceiba. One of the numerous positive reactions this book evoked was from the American writer Kurt Vonnegut, who described Quesada as a "lively and gifted writer full of amusing and thought-provoking ideas."ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, 1993 GARBROK, pag. 221.(Raymond Leslie Williams)