"This historical novel has the best of both worlds: the best of the novel and the best of history. And there is a third quality that makes Hochschild's List an original and especially interesting work: it presents the Second World War from a Bolivian perspective. Throughout the novel's almost three hundred pages, Ver nica Ormachea takes us on a journey through time and space to the broken heart of the twentieth century, via a fast-paced and skillfully...