Tarantula - Eduardo Halfon Original Language: Czech

Original Language: Czech

is at once a coming-of-age novel

Ever since

a young maid he seduced and abandoned years before

But the empty words hide a terrible conflict and

Tarantula - Eduardo Halfon Original Language: CzechEduardo 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 theyre told is a Jewish summer camp. At the camp, the