City Lights:
San Francisco: 2001
Trade paperback,
131 pp.
Cover artwork by: Dario Fo

Fo won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997. “Dario Fo is one of the world’s most important contemporary playwrights, forging subversive comedy, clowning, unusual linguistic experimentation, and brilliant playwriting into a comedy of complete originality. A first-person monologue that bends and mutates language and historical fact, JOHAN PADAN AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE AMERICAS is a brilliant, vividly imagined retelling of Christopher Columbus’s voyage to America. Told by a last-minute conscript assigned to clean the shipboard pig stalls, who goes on to be adopted by a tribe of Indians and help them fight conquistadors, it posits a riotous alternate history in which the dynamics between native and white, male and female, history and comedy are never what they seem.” #14566

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