A Shot in the Cathedral

by Mario Bencastro

Book Overview

Not a propagandistic nor partisan view of the civil war in El Salvador, A Shot in the Cathedral is remarkable for its sensitivity, restraint and poetic vision of the tragic and inhuman events and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155885164X
• ISBN13: 9781558851641
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Arte Publico Press
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

El Salvador redux

Please "get into this book!" The rights of journalists, ordinarypeople in a struggle not of their making fill this small sampleof what happened to them compels your attention. It often reads like a play script, then socks you into its purpose as a political novel. I took a few brief "rests" to contemplate the force of Bencastro's ardent script! It is a sensitive version of Latin American guerrilla warfare and the "inhumanitarian" rules of their martial law inflicted upon the citizens of El Salvador.