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    The Dissertation: Tinieblas Book Two

    By R. M. Koster

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    The second book in R.M. Koster's highly acclaimed Tinieblas trilogy (following The Prince), The Dissertation is the story of--and a story by--Camilo Fuertes. To fulfill his Ph.D. requirement, Fuertes decides to write about his father, the martyred president of Tinieblas, a country in Latin America. We follow Leon as he winds his twisted path through delinquency, learning, bravery, and incest to the presidency. At once a powerful vision of Latin American history and a brilliant parody of the academic form--complete with endnotes!--The Dissertation is an essential postmodern novel in the tradition of Vonnegut, Barth and Nabokov, ready to be embraced by a new generation of readers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Group
    Release dateDec 16, 2013
    ISBN9781468309096
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      I read this book (a gift from my best friend) while I was writing my own dissertation in psychology. It was my first foray into "magical realism." It provided much-need perspective and escape. Wildly original. Outrageously, laugh-out-loud-snorting funny.