01479cam a2200265 a 45000010009000000050017000090080041000260100017000670200025000840200022001090350024001310400035001550410008001900420014001980430021002120500028002330820016002611000023002772450049003002600045003493000021003945200694004156500061011096500043011701712371820170131120335.0120117s2011    nvu           000 1 eng d  a  2011904665  a9781611090673 (pbk.)  a1611090679 (pbk.)  a(OCoLC)ocn760912360  aJAIcJAIdGPIdTXAdYDXCPdDLC  aspa  alccopycat  an-us-nyan-us---00aPS3552.R32753bU55 201100a813/.542231 aBraschi, Giannina,10aUnited States of Banana /cGiannina Braschi.  aLas Vegas, NV :bAmazonCrossing,cc2011.  a305 p. ;c21 cm.  aUnited States of Banana takes place at the Statue of Liberty in post-9/11 New York City, where Hamlet, Zarathustra, and Giannina are on a quest to free the Puerto Rican prisoner Segismundo. Segismundo has been imprisoned for more than one hundred years, hidden away by his father, the king of the United States of Banana, for the crime of having been born. But when the king remarries, he frees his son, and for the sake of reconciliation, makes Puerto Rico the fifty-first state and grants American passports to all Latin American citizens. This staggering show of benevolence rocks the global community, causing an unexpected power shift with far reaching implications.cFrom back cover. 0aHispanic AmericanszNew York (State)zNew YorkvFiction. 0aPuerto RicanszUnited StatesvFiction.