Comrades launched

Aflame Books teamed up with the School of Modern Languages at the University of Bristol to launch Comrades, the masterful translation by Leona Nickless of the classic Guatemalan novel Los compañeros by Marco Antonio Flores. This title comes more than 30 years after Marco Antonio Flores lit the fuse of an explosive new genre in Central American literature with his polemical, naked and brutal novel. Hailed as a masterpiece when first published in 1976, Comrades relates the stories of young revolutionaries embroiled in Guatemala’s bloody civil war and describes how their zeal was coloured by a cocktail of sex, booze and ambition. It was launched on 18 March at Bristol University’s School of Modern Languages.