<div>The &ldquo;chameleon-like&rdquo; ABA&ndash;winning author of Easy in the Islands offers a new collection of eight &ldquo;surprising [and] memorable&rdquo; short stories (Publishers Weekly). The haunting stories in Shacochis&rsquo;s second collection combine comic wit and carnal certainty with an aura of history. Each of the eight tales here feature outrageously original characters who, through Shacochis&rsquo;s ability to inhabit a spectacular range of voices, become eerily familiar. Two elderly sisters share a phantom lover; a Virginia patriarch, haunted by ghosts of Confederate soldiers, is buried with their bones; a family celebrates the Fourth of July in the shadow of the father&rsquo;s Alzheimer&rsquo;s syndrome; and a musician&rsquo;s thunderous love turns him into a cannibal. From renaissance England to Cape Hatteras to the Caribbean islands, readers will find themselves submerged in exquisitely crafted fictions &ldquo;charged with wit and style . . . intelligent, engaging, and richly realized.&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). &ldquo;Shacochis is a master of voices. . . . In The Next New World he roams about through history and across the globe, tethering his wit to a sense of political conscience. . . . Sometimes more is more.&rdquo; &mdash;The Miami Herald &ldquo;If we are in the golden age of the short story, Bob Shacochis is one of the writers who got us here.&rdquo; &mdash;Providence Journal</div>

The Next New World

<div>&ldquo;Every war brings forth one perfect book. . . . Now we have The Immaculate Invasion, the masterpiece of the 1994 US assault on and occupation of Haiti.&rdquo; &mdash;Chicago Tribune Widely celebrated upon its original publication in 1999, National Book Award winning writer Bob Shacochis&rsquo;s The Immaculate Invasion is a gritty, poetic, and revelatory look at the American intervention in Haiti. In 1994, the United States embarked on Operation Uphold Democracy, a response to the overthrow of the democratically elected Haitian government by a brutal military coup. As a reporter for Harper&rsquo;s, Bob Shacochis traveled to Haiti and was embedded&mdash;long before the idea became popular in Iraq&mdash;with a team of Special Forces commandos for eighteen months. He came away with tremendous insight into Haiti, the character of American fighters, and what can happen when an intervention turns into a misadventure. In The Immaculate Invasion, Shacochis captures the exploits and frustrations, the inner lives and heroic deeds of young Americans as they struggle to bring democracy to a country ravaged by tyranny. The Immaculate Invasion is required reading for anyone who wants to understand what has happened in Haiti in the past, its current state, and its future path. &ldquo;An extraordinary book about an extraordinary event . . . I felt transported to Haiti. I could hear it. I could smell it. At moments I felt moved almost to tears, only to find myself, a page or two later, laughing out loud.&rdquo; &mdash;Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author of The Soul of a New Machine</div>

The Immaculate Invasion

<div>Winner of the National Book Award for First Fiction: &ldquo;Beguiling stories . . . about an uncommonly fascinating part of the hemisphere&rdquo; (Time). Easy in the Islands is a &ldquo;stunning&rdquo; collection of stories by one of contemporary America&rsquo;s foremost journalists and fiction writers. Infused with the rhythms of the Caribbean, these vivid tales of paradise sought and paradise lost are as lush, steamy, and invigorating as the islands themselves (The Washington Post). A calypso singer named Lord Short Shoe consorts with a vampish black singer to bilk an American out of his only companion&mdash;a monkey. An island bureaucracy confounds the attempts of a hotel owner to get his dead mother out of the freezer and into a real grave&mdash;until he resorts to a highly unusual form of burial. Two poor islanders stumble into a high-class dance party and find themselves caught in a violent encounter that just might escalate into revolution. And a young woman sails off into the romantic tropics with the man of her dreams, only to learn the hard way&mdash;as Eve did&mdash;that paradise is just another place to leave behind. From fishing fleets in remote atolls too small to appear on any map to the sprawling barrios and yacht filled marinas of Miami, Bob Shacochis charts a course across a Caribbean that no tourist will recognize.</div>

Easy in the Islands

<div>Pulitzer Prize finalist: &ldquo;A soaring literary epic about the forces that have driven us to the 9/11 age . . . relentlessly captivating&rdquo; (Ron Charles, The Washington Post). When humanitarian lawyer Tom Harrington travels to Haiti to investigate the murder of a beautiful photojournalist, he is confronted with a dangerous landscape riddled with poverty, corruption, and voodoo. It&rsquo;s the late 1990s, a time of brutal guerrilla warfare and civilian kidnappings. The journalist, whom he knew years before as Jackie Scott, had a bigger investment in Haiti than it seemed. To make sense of her death, Tom must plunge back into his complicated ties to Jackie&mdash;and her mysterious past. Shacochis traces Jackie&rsquo;s shadowy family history from the outlaw terrain of World War II Dubrovnik to 1980s Istanbul. Caught between her first love and her domineering father&mdash;an elite Cold War spy pressuring her to follow in his footsteps&mdash;seventeen-year-old Jackie hatches a desperate escape plan. But getting out also puts her on the path that turns her into the soulless woman Tom fears as much as desires. Set over fifty years and in four war-torn countries, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul is National Book Award winner Bob Shacochis&rsquo;s masterpiece and a magnum opus. It brings to life an intricate portrait of catastrophic events that led up to the war on terror and the America we are today.</div>

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The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

<div>A vibrant portrait of love and politics in the tropics from the National Book Award&ndash;winning author: &ldquo;the finest first novel I have read in many years&rdquo; (William O&rsquo;Rourke, Chicago Tribune). Winner of the National Book Award for First Fiction for Easy in the Islands, Bob Shacochis returns to the islands with Swimming in the Volcano, a &ldquo;splendid first novel&rdquo; that illuminates the beauty and life of the Caribbean (Library Journal). On the fictional island of St. Catherine, an American expatriate becomes unwittingly embroiled in an internecine war between rival factions of the government. Into this potentially explosive scene enters a woman he once loved and lost, but who remains a powerful temptation&mdash;one that proves impossible to resist. Both an enchanting love story and a sophisticated political novel about the fruits of imperialism in the twentieth century, Swimming in the Volcano is as brutal and seductive a novel as the world it evokes. &ldquo;Scores of island people, from conspiring politicians to barbers on the beach, sprawl across the pages like oleander and hibiscus . . . each of [the book&rsquo;s] scenes is expertly wrought.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review</div>

Swimming in the Volcano

<div>This &ldquo;exuberant travel and cultural anthology&rdquo; by the National Book Award&ndash;winning author &ldquo;brings each setting to life with a perceptive eye&rdquo; (Booklist, starred review). Best known for his sweeping political novels, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, Bob Shacochis began his career as a journalist and contributing editor for Outside magazine and Harper&rsquo;s. Kingdoms in the Air brings together the very best of Shacochis&rsquo;s culture and travel essays in a collection that spans his global adventures and passions; from Kathmandu to Mozambique, from his love of surfing to his obsession with the South American dorado. In the titular essay &ldquo;Kingdoms,&rdquo; the longest work in the collection, Shacochis ventures to Nepal with his friend, the photographer Thomas Laird, who was the first foreigner to live in Nepal&rsquo;s Kingdom of Mustang as the forbidden Shangri-La prepared to open its borders to trekkers and trade. Replete with Shacochis&rsquo;s swagger, humor, and wisdom, Kingdoms in the Air is an essential collection of travel writing by an author who &ldquo;has extended his knowledge and imagination into places most of us have never ventured&rdquo; (Washington Post).</div>

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Books By Bob Shacochis (6 Books)

The Next New World

The Immaculate Invasion

Easy in the Islands

The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

Swimming in the Volcano

Kingdoms in the Air

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Books By Bob Shacochis (6 Books)

The Next New World

The Immaculate Invasion

Easy in the Islands

The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

Swimming in the Volcano

Kingdoms in the Air

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