01769cam a2200313 a 4500 17123718 20170131120335.0 120117s2011 nvu 000 1 eng d 2011904665 9781611090673 (pbk.) 1611090679 (pbk.) (OCoLC)ocn760912360 JAI JAI GPI TXA YDXCP DLC spa lccopycat n-us-ny n-us--- PS3552.R32753 U55 2011 813/.54 23 Braschi, Giannina, 64979 United States of Banana / Giannina Braschi. Las Vegas, NV : AmazonCrossing, c2011. 305 p. ; 21 cm. United 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. From back cover. Hispanic Americans New York (State) New York Fiction. Puerto Ricans United States Fiction. 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg 6 813 256807 256807 0 0 ddc 0 813_540000000000000_B8231U 0 384638 10 10 B 2017-01-31 8.99 0 813.54 B8231u 80000002530619 2017-01-31 00:00:00 2017-01-31 6 0 0 ddc 0 813_540000000000000_B8231U 0 384639 10 10 1 2017-01-31 8.99 0 813.54 B8231u 80000002450982 2017-01-31 00:00:00 2017-01-31 6