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02460aam a22003858i 4500 001 D6685440471C11EA8C4E586797128E48 003 SILO 005 20200204010450 008 190710s2020 txu s000 1 eng 010 $a 2019026435 020 $a 1477316574 020 $a 9781477316573 035 $a (OCoLC)1110673268 040 $a TxU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d YDX $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h spa 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PQ8550.12 A62 P3813 2020 100 1 $a Barrera, Alberto $e author. 240 10 $a Patria o muerte. $l English 245 14 $a The last days of el comandante / $c Alberto Barrera Tyszka ; translated by Rosalind Harvey and Jessie Mendez Sayer. 250 $a First English language edition. 263 $a 2001 264 1 $a Austin : $b University of Texas Press, $c 2020. 300 $a pages cm 490 0 $a Latin American literature in translation series 520 $a "Alberto Barrera Tyszka's Patria o muerte is a thriller set at the time of Hugo ChaÌvez's impending death and the frenzy that it sets off in Venezuela. The retired oncologist Miguel Sanabria lives on edge, and his skepticism about the diagnosis of ChaÌvez's illness seems to put him at odds with the world around him, which is becoming increasingly combustible. Sanabria's extremist anti-ChaÌvez wife threatens to act unwisely, and his nephew Vladimir arrives from Cuba with a secret recording of ChaÌvez's voice and asks that his uncle conceal it--a life-threatening promise. His neighbor Fredy Lacuna, an unemployed journalist, is desperate for money and takes on a job writing and investigating ChaÌvez's health condition. Lacuna leaves for Cuba while his wife, unbeknown to him, is pressured to leave their rented apartment by the owner. In a nearby neighborhood, a ten-year-old girl pretends all is normal, though she has been living on her own after her mother was shot dead outside their home. Her only contact to the world is a boy she regularly messages online"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a ChaÌvez FriÌas, Hugo $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Political culture $z Venezuela $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Venezuela $x Politics and government $y 1999- $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Harvey, Rosalind, $d 1982- $e translator. 700 1 $a Sayer, Jessie Mendez, $e translator. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200505020006.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D6685440471C11EA8C4E586797128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search