The Singer's Needle: An Undisciplined History of Panamá

by Ezer Vierba

Ezer Vierba's The Singer's Needle offers an innovative history of twentieth-century Panam that illuminates the nature of power and politics in a small but volatile nation. Using novelistic techniques, Vierba explores three episodes that proved critical to the shaping and erosion of contemporary Panamanian institutions: the establishment of a penal colony on the island of Coiba in 1919; the judicial drama following the murder of President Jos...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022634231X
• ISBN13: 9780226342313
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"