Tarantula - Eduardo Halfon

Winner Of The Prix Mdicis Tranger In France And The Premio De La Critica In Spainconversation-starting And Prize-winning International Fiction: An Extraordinary Meditation On Violence, Conspiracy And The Many Complex Afterlives Of The Holocaust 'audacious' Observer'provocative' Times Literary Supplement'extraordinary' Olivia Laingeduardo And His Brother Have Been Living In The Us For Three Years When Their Parents Send Them Back To Guatemala For The Holidays. It Is 1984 And Their Native Country, In The Midst Of A Violent Civil War, Feels Newly Alien To Them - Their Spanish Faltering, Already Half-forgotten. Their Grandfather Collects The Boys From The Airport And Drives Them Into The Mountains, Depositing Them At What They're Told Is A Jewish Summer The Camp, The Children Meet A Counsellor Called Samuel Blum: A Handsome Young Man With Sky-blue Eyes Who Knows About All Kinds Of Things.