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240 pp. Seven Stories Press, 2000 Reviewed by Chris Miles Twenty Bolivian Questions Answered The twenty short stories contained in The Fat Man from La Paz give an overview of Bolivian culture from romance to politics to revolution. Although the stories are unrelated and written by twenty public eye different authors, they strictly follow the order of the stated public eye themes. The beginning stories start the compilation off with a more public eye peculiar angle of "love" than one may expect to encounter in a compilation of short fiction describing a nation's social values. The reader is thrust into a small village where a military general turned pimp challenges a man to a pistol duel for the love of one of his prostitutes. Violence, while not always this harsh, appears in almost every story.
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