by Jose Leon Sanchez
A brutal, searing story of prison life in latin America in which Sanchez
uses the device of the ""found"" papers to reconstruct the fate of
""Jacinto"" serving a life sentence in the Penitentiary of San Luca off
the coast of Costa Rica. Jacinto is an Innocent -- an illiterate,
ingenuous peasant hauled off in chains to this island of the damned;
Dante's Inferno is, by comparison, a humane and civilized spot. ... ""They say that in
prison everyone suffers, the suffering cements a brotherhood between
men; but it isn't that way."" He feels his own humanity being slowly
sapped; he calls on God to turn his head; he tries an impossible escape
in shark-infested waters; his leg is chopped off with a blacksmith's
axe. . .before some revolution or other begins to dole out the first
reforms that will many, many years later turn San Luca into a showpiece
jail. (Kirkus Review)Host: Fanny
Fecha/Hora: Sunday November 8th @ 11am
Location: Corona's coffee (909 West Irving Park)http://cafecorona.com
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