The Dissertation: Tinieblas Book Two (Tinieblas #2)

By: R. M. Koster

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Synopsis: This novel posing as a dissertation on León Fuertes, the fictional president of a made-up Banana Republic is &“still fresh, funny, and disturbingly relevant&” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). To fulfill his PhD requirement, Camilo Fuertes decides to write about his father León, the martyred president of Tinieblas, a small country in Latin America. As Camilo traces his family&’s roots, we follow León along his twisted path through delinquency, learning, lust, and bravery to his historic position of leadership. At once a powerful vision of Latin American history and a brilliant parody of the academic form—complete with endnotes—The Dissertation is the second novel in Koster&’s acclaimed Tinieblas trilogy, and an essential postmodern novel in the tradition of Vonnegut, Barth, and Nabokov. &“One of the few books of the past 20 years that deserves to be called astonishing. It is a brilliant novel, structurally a marvel and, in all, a demonstration of elan as that quality seldom is experienced in a work of fiction.&” —The Des Moines Register &“Longtime Panama resident Koster portrays Latin America with a comedian&’s sense of timing, a scholar&’s sense of history, and a native&’s fond despair.&” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) &“Koster is that rare thing: a writer from the heart, passionate and uncompromising.&” —John le Carré