Twenty years ago by a book peddler's stall in a festive Mexican night, Adam Lifshey stumbled upon the inspiration for his new novel, As Green as Paradise. Between then and now, he dreamt beneath the sandstone of Salamanca, covered a hostage crisis in Lima for a Japanese newspaper, busked with his guitar on the streets of Scandinavia (the "Iceman Strummeth" tour), studied a Mayan language in Guatemala, released the original folk album "Where the Quetzal Flies" in Berkeley, wrote the comparative literary study Specters of Conquest, and, no doubt today, listened again to something by Bob Dylan or... View More »

Twenty years ago by a book peddler's stall in a festive Mexican night, Adam Lifshey stumbled upon the inspiration for his new novel, As Green as Paradise. Between then and now, he dreamt beneath the sandstone of Salamanca, covered a hostage crisis in Lima for a Japanese newspaper, busked with his guitar on the streets of Scandinavia (the "Iceman Strummeth" tour), studied a Mayan language in Guatemala, released the original folk album "Where the Quetzal Flies" in Berkeley, wrote the comparative literary study Specters of Conquest, and, no doubt today, listened again to something by Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen or Bruce Springsteen and grinned again at something in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Now an assistant professor of modern Latin American literature at Georgetown University, Adam specializes in Asian and African literature written in Spanish and is finishing a book on that subject. «View Less

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Twenty years ago by a book peddler's stall in a festive Mexican night, Adam Lifshey stumbled upon the inspiration for his new novel, As Green as Paradise. Between then and now, he dreamt beneath the sandstone of Salamanca, covered a hostage crisis in Lima for a Japanese newspaper, busked with his guitar on the streets of Scandinavia (the "Iceman Strummeth" tour), studied a Mayan language in Guatemala, released the original folk album "Where the Quetzal Flies" in Berkeley, wrote the comparative literary study Specters of Conquest, and, no doubt today, listened again to something by Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen or Bruce Springsteen and grinned again at something in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Now an assistant professor of modern Latin American literature at Georgetown University, Adam specializes in Asian and African literature written in Spanish and is finishing a book on that subject. «View Less